ALWAYS IN MY HEART

FAR FROM HOME

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has had to part with her beloved five-year-old daughter, Alice, who is travelling to safety in Canada. Polly's heart is torn in two and she throws herself into her work at Cliffehaven Hospital. But then a telegram arrives; the boat Alice was on has been torpedoed by a German U-boat....

KEEP SMILING THROUGH

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and with her father away on important war work, seventeen-year-old Rita Smith has plenty of people to turn to in the close-knit community of Cliffehaven. As war rages across Europe, Rita volunteers as a fire warden, longing for the day when she can be reunited with those she loves best...

A PLACE CALLED HOME

Cliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home. Peggy Reilly is over the moon that her husband Jim is safely back from Burma. But after the horrors he has endured, adjusting to life at Beach View will not be easy. Can he and Peggy find a way through? Meanwhile evacuee Ruby Clark has much to contend with when her estranged mother turns up, having completed a long prison sentence. There is huge heartache still to come for Ruby, and she will need her Beach View family more than ever. Will the sanctuary of home give them each the strength they need to face the challenges ahead?

THERE'LL BE BLUE SKIES

Sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to Cliffehaven on the south coast, and is terrified by what lies ahead of her. But when she is welcomed by the open-hearted Reilly family, life begins to improve. Then her mother Florrie arrives, bringing disaster with her, and Sally is forced to work out where her true loyalties lie....

UNTIL YOU COME HOME

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp, his wife Anne comes back from the country to live with her mother, Peggy Reilly at Beach View Boarding House whilst they wait for news...