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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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