Somerset 1911. Miner's wife Lorna Harrison sometimes wonders what became of her marriage. Her husban..

Lake District 1942. Spring is in the air at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home. Beautiful Stella has bee..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Hugo Kendal and his wife Margaret finally receive a royal pardon and are permitted at last to return..

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

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

When Betty and her best friend Sally discover a baby tucked in a blanket amongst the rubble at the M..

It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..

Having lost her mother at a young age Maria Conti is close to her father Leo who owns an Italian res..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

1864. Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband Beatrix and her three children are fi..

England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..

Freddie Barcussy knows hardship and pain. His parents Annie and Levi are struggling to make ends mee..

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

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover t..

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

Polly Longden’s china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes she ne..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

It is 1913 and for orphans Megan and Hattie brought up in a convent in Leeds the time has come to ma..

Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..

Rowan Sykes is overjoyed when her beloved older sister Laurel takes a new job and moves back home to..

July 1942. Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman hu..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

August 1939. When it becomes clear that war is about to break out twin sisters Dilys and Una Singleb..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp his wife Ann..

It’s 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come knocking at the door of Be..

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..

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

After her husband Jack is transported to Australia as a convict Hannah and her children are sent to ..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

Almost a decade after being rescued from a shipwreck by a local Cornish family sixteen-year-old Lott..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

When Stella Swift is discovered holding a shard of broken glass near her newborn baby fears that she..

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies - she makes a living by taking in unwanted c..

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

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

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

Born into service 16-year-old Juliet Harper has always idolised her mother Agnes. But Agnes is haunt..

Young Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with ailing mother Laura. Noah Bilton..

When Thomas Grant - one of the most eligible young men in London - proposes to Annabel Seaton she ca..

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

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..

Surrey 1940. Overhead the Battle of Britain rages. Below at the Poppy Factory disabled WWI veterans ..

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in an accident. Although her beloved grandfa..

Harry Blenheim wasn't what you might call a good-looking fellow but his face was full of character w..

Eleanor Saint loves helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grand..

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

It's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and Milly Travis there's nothing quite like the thrill of the funfa..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

After the death of her parents in a bombing raid Mary Jones discovers a secret in her father’s dia..

1875. Terrified that her life is in danger in her abusive marriage Emma flees to the safety of Night..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..

Sunderland 1940..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

Heiress Tara Nankervis is beautiful yet pained. She is forced to share a devastating secret with her..

Cecile has been raised to a life of privilege at Polruan House by her widowed father and aunt. Now s..