Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

Young Mikey Quinn scavenging on the streets of Hull is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from..

Thirteen-year-old Bella lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run by her family in the York..

Sixteen-year-old Jeannie spends most of her time at Scarborough Harbour - she is a net mender and he..

Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was well-deserved for Francis Morton had been evil in ..

When Polly Anna’s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the on..

Edinburgh 1923. After four years spent in an orphanage bright spirited 15-year-old Shona Murray find..

Madeleine Ingleton has just come home from the Swiss finishing school where she has spent the last t..

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

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

1935: As the Depression bites beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in ..

It's been a long hard winter in Burracombe. At Burracombe Barton Hilary Napier is doing her best to ..

London 1899. As she prepares for a glittering ball 20-year-old Gertrude Melrose considers her good f..

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with their widowed mother Nell in a flat above her shop. Addy is plai..