The Second World War tested women in a multitude of ways. In this set, we see a Yorkshire matriarch open her home, Raven Hall, to the RAF. Two Liverpool friends see everything they have worked for threatened by bombing and separation. A wife who fought her way into an unwelcoming family witnesses events scatter everyone she loves. A WAAF plotter's marriage is further strained before her husband takes to the skies again. Different lives, different regions with one question in common: how do you hold on to what matters?

Mollie Walton, 'Mother's War' - When the RAF arrive at Raven Hall, Rosina watches her daughters choose courage, and discovers some of her own.

Rita Bradshaw, 'Skylarks At Sunset' - Orphaned Hope marries in secret against his family's wishes and meets Sunderland's Depression and war with her spirit unbroken.

Betty Firth, 'A Little Miracle in the Dales' - When Charlie's wartime injuries steal their dream of a family, WAAF plotter Bobby finds an unexpected miracle in the Dales.

Lyn Andrews, 'Goodbye, Mersey View' - Mersey View friends Monica and Joan face the sternest test as war descends on Liverpool and threatens all they love.

Four touching novels about people searching to find their 'home'. A Yorkshire family fractured by scandal and grief, trying to find its way back to itself. An Irish mill girl who leaves everything she knows for a new life in Dublin. A community rallying around a runaway child and two people who didn't expect to fall in love. Lily Brown boards the Titanic, fleeing heartbreak, unaware that the voyage will change everything she thought was lost. Different times and places, the same search. 

TITLES: Diane Allen, 'Daughter of the Dales' + Anna Jacobs, 'A Valley Wedding' + Seana Tinley, 'The Irish Midwife' + Rita Bradshaw 'Gilding the Lily