October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..

March 1942. As the war continues wedding bells are ringing for the factory girls. Sarah is happily s..

Years of sitting on the stairs while her mother entertains her ?visitors? in their squalid house dow..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Toby is the new owner of the old inn an unwitting keeper of its secrets. Then Meg Staley comes to Ca..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..

Seventeen years old Lily Rose scratches out a meagre living making lace responsible for her siblings..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..