Years of sitting on the stairs while her mother entertains her ?visitors? in their squalid house dow..
John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..
Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..
Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..
Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..
In the Nightingale Hospital Matron?Helen?finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly discove..
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..
1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..
Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..
1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..
Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..
Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..
East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..
1931 Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was..
Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..
Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..
It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..
Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..
Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..
October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..
When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..
When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..
Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..
England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..
1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..
Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..
Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..
Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..
October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..
In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..
Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..
England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..
Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..
Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..
In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..
1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..
Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..
Toby is the new owner of the old inn an unwitting keeper of its secrets. Then Meg Staley comes to Ca..
When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..
The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..
At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..
1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..
Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..
In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..
Janet Scott loves books and learning and is happy living at the schoolhouse where her grandfather is..
Carrie Anderson's business selling books at her local train station is thriving and with her beloved..
York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...
June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..
Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..
Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..
Seventeen years old Lily Rose scratches out a meagre living making lace responsible for her siblings..
1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..
Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..
After escaping a train bound for a death camp with a trusty German Shepherd dog a girl wakes to find..
Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..
Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..
Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..
Anna and Will have been passing in and out of each other's lives since they were just kids._x000D_No..
BLACKPOOL 1914. Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poo..
After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..
1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..
When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..
March 1942. As the war continues wedding bells are ringing for the factory girls. Sarah is happily s..
Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..
Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..
Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..
An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
Kay Duffield's fianc? is about to leave the country and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when ..
Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..
Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..
Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..
Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..
The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..
It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..
Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..
Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..
In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..