Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..

Cornwall 1929. Fiona Fox youngest child of the celebrated Fox family is a devoted volunteer at the l..

Kent 1815. When the beautiful but naive Grace Lennicker falls for Isaiah Feasey son of a rival smugg..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

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

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

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..

Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and h..