It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. She travels to the Somme w..

Moments after she is born Tessa Barcussy is branded as 'trouble'. The day she is born her father Fre..

Joanna Ryan's father has gone off to war leaving her in the care of her step-mother a woman more con..

Seventeen-year-old Merryn Dyer has been helping her mother knit fishermen's jumpers in their little ..

A dismal cottage in the heart of Bolton Lancashire has been Sally's prison since Joseph Goden 'bough..

Orphaned young Violet Wheeler has been brought up by her aunt - but when Winnie dies she feels she's..

Summer 1936. Newly trained midwife Hazel Price returns to the Yorkshire streets of her childhood onl..

1941: it takes strength to work on the docks but the war demands all hands on deck and the women are..

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

A little girl is found abandoned on a beach one chilly Monday in October alone apart from the body o..

1917. Kitty Maitland has found a safe and welcoming home at Dark River Farm Devon and is finally beg..

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

Zoe hasn't seen Gina for years blaming her for the secret that she's been running from ever since sh..

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

Sunderland 1941Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy but baby Hope's first weeks ar..