Mariah Bowes thinks that being alone and penniless is the worst thing that can happen to a woman unt..
Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..
It's August 1917 and WW1 continues to take a toll. The villagers of Dorcalon try to keep hope alive;..
Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..
The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..
Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..
In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..
A new generation of the Maxwell family are farming at Wester Rullion during the 1980s. Young Paul Ma..
His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..
Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..
Britain is at war and May Lynch loves the life she’s leading as a pilot and poster girl for the Ai..
1917. A farm girl from Cavan Veronica McDermott is desperate to find more to life than peeling potat..
Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..
Lake District 1942. Spring is in the air at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home. Beautiful Stella has bee..
Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..
Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..
Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..
Manchester 1941. Kept apart by war work bombs and blackouts Lorna and her beloved George cherish eve..
Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..
Blackpool 1918. _x000D_Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent her flashing green eyes..
The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..
Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey. Separated fro..
West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..
In the years following the end of World War II life at the Glens of Lochandee is tough. Many familie..
1939. When war sends five displaced children to her door Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be t..
1864. Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband Beatrix and her three children are fi..
In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..
1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..
It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..
When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..
January 1942. The new year brings heartache for Bobby Bancroft. Not only must she say goodbye to her..
Heiress Tara Nankervis is beautiful yet pained. She is forced to share a devastating secret with her..
When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..
Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..
Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..
The war is over but peace hasn't quite settled between newly-reunited sisters Babs and Beth. Tilly a..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a ..
After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..
Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..
'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..
In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..
Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend when her mother dies leavin..
At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..
Orphaned young Violet Wheeler has been brought up by her aunt - but when Winnie dies she feels she's..
It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her 18th birthday and said goodbye ..
In 1930s Scotland families are starving and thousands of farms lie derelict. But Fairlyden has survi..
Liverpool 1861. Annie Shaw longs to be taken seriously. At 14 she's fed up of being babied by her bi..
BLACKPOOL 1914. Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poo..
Kent 1816. Now Molly Dawson's family have grown up and left home she has every reason to expect that..
1917. Kitty Maitland has found a safe and welcoming home at Dark River Farm Devon and is finally beg..
It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
At 16 Rachel O’Brian finds herself alone in the world and accepts a home with an old friend of her..
As Europe edges closer to war Bella's world is focused on avoiding a future like her mother's. She d..
Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..
Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..
Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..
When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother she is forced to leave London to live with her est..
A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..
In 1906 Beth Jamieson is a little girl of eight with honey gold curls and the sweetest nature. Her f..
It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..
In 1960s Scotland the farming industry is on the brink of huge changes becoming more mechanised and ..
Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..
Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..
Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..
Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..
1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...
It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..
Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..
Liverpool 1930. Reformed con-artist Leah Marshall has long yearned for the thrills of her former lif..
December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..
It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..
It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..
Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..
Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..
Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..
Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..
Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a comfortable ho..
Young widow Julia Nance has found happiness again running her beloved guesthouse Fairlight but with ..
Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..
It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..
Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..
Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..
An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..