Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined - he has lost his boat yard and his fortune p..

August 1918. World War I is entering its final stages. A generation of young men have given up their..

Halifax 1876. On the death of her mother and sister Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and ..

Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow Hill workhouse. She now..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

In a small seaside town popular with summer visitors Cecily and Ada run their father's grocery shop...

Hull 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch adopted as a baby turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow’s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep..

Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..

As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool only friendship and community can keep the women of Weav..

Thrown together by tragic circumstances some years previously Meg and Clarrie's hard-won friendship ..

February 1945. When April Green's father is killed by a bomb life without him is hard to bear. April..

March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..