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Catherine King / Maggie Mash

Mariah Bowes thinks that being alone and penniless is the worst thing that can happen to a woman unt..










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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover Available 3rd August 2025

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..










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Francesca Capaldi / Deryn Edwards

It's August 1917 and WW1 continues to take a toll. The villagers of Dorcalon try to keep hope alive;..




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Catherine Cookson / Colleen Prendergast

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..







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Beryl Matthews / Annie Aldington

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..




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Lynne Francis / Annie Aldington

Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..







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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..
















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Catherine Cookson / Simon Mattacks

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..




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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

A new generation of the Maxwell family are farming at Wester Rullion during the 1980s. Young Paul Ma..

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Catherine Cookson / George Bray

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..










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Pam Evans / Annie Aldington

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

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Ellie Dean / Julie Maisey

Britain is at war and May Lynch loves the life she’s leading as a pilot and poster girl for the Ai..




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Eimear Lawlor / Deirdre O’Connell

1917. A farm girl from Cavan Veronica McDermott is desperate to find more to life than peeling potat..




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Daisy Styles / Helen Lloyd

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..




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Francesca Capaldi / Eilidh Beaton

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..




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Daisy Styles / Helen Lloyd

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




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Gracie Hart / Colleen Prendergast

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..







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Evie Grace / Colleen Prendergast Available 9th August 2025

Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..




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Anna Jacobs / Rosalind Lailey

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..







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Susanna Bavin / Julia Franklin

Manchester 1941. Kept apart by war work bombs and blackouts Lorna and her beloved George cherish eve..







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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..




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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

Blackpool 1918. _x000D_Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent her flashing green eyes..







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Ellie Dean / Julie Maisey

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey. Separated fro..




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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..




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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

In the years following the end of World War II life at the Glens of Lochandee is tough. Many familie..




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Luisa A. Jones / Bronwen Price

1939. When war sends five displaced children to her door Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be t..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover Available 11th August 2025

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













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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

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







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Francesca Capaldi / Eilidh Beaton

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..







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Libby Ashworth / Katy Sobey

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..










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Merryn Allingham / Karen Cass

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







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Betty Firth / Claire Storey

January 1942. The new year brings heartache for Bobby Bancroft. Not only must she say goodbye to her..










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Gloria Cook / Patricia Gallimore

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

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E.V. Thompson / Patience Tomlinson

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..
















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Glenda Young / Janine Birkett

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..




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Helen Carey / Annie Aldington

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

























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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

The war is over but peace hasn't quite settled between newly-reunited sisters Babs and Beth. Tilly a..




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Katie Flynn; Judith Saxton / Anne Dover

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..




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Helen Carey / Annie Aldington

August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a ..




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Elizabeth Gill / Julia Barrie

After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..










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Francesca Capaldi / Eilidh Beaton Available 4th August 2025

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

























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Glenda Young / Janine Birkett

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..










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Ellie Dean / Julie Maisey

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..







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Cathy Mansell / Roisin Rankin

Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend when her mother dies leavin..

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Maggie Bennett / Tanya Myers

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..




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Jenny Holmes / Andrew Wincott

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




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Ellie Dean / Penelope Freeman Available 11th August 2025

It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her 18th birthday and said goodbye ..










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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

In 1930s Scotland families are starving and thousands of farms lie derelict. But Fairlyden has survi..

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Judy Summers / Annabelle Dowler

Liverpool 1861. Annie Shaw longs to be taken seriously. At 14 she's fed up of being babied by her bi..




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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

BLACKPOOL 1914. Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poo..







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Lynne Francis / Annie Aldington

Kent 1816. Now Molly Dawson's family have grown up and left home she has every reason to expect that..




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Terri Nixon / Andrew Wincott

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




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Cathy Mansell / Shelley Atkinson Available 31st July 2025

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







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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin Available 11th August 2025

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







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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

At 16 Rachel O’Brian finds herself alone in the world and accepts a home with an old friend of her..

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Karen Dickson / Katherine Press

As Europe edges closer to war Bella's world is focused on avoiding a future like her mother's. She d..

























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Lesley Eames / Polly Edsell

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




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Terri Nixon / Penelope Freeman

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

























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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

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




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Tania Crosse / Tanya Myers

When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother she is forced to leave London to live with her est..




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Dee Yates / Maggie Mash

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..




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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

In 1906 Beth Jamieson is a little girl of eight with honey gold curls and the sweetest nature. Her f..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover Available 8th August 2025

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..




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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

In 1960s Scotland the farming industry is on the brink of huge changes becoming more mechanised and ..
















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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

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













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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover Available 3rd August 2025

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

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Francesca Capaldi / Deryn Edwards

Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..







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Francesca Capaldi / Eilidh Beaton

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..

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Diane Allen / Anne Dover

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

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Lilian Harry / Anne Dover Available 11th August 2025

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




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Lesley Eames / Polly Edsell

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

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Terri Nixon / Penelope Freeman

Liverpool 1930. Reformed con-artist Leah Marshall has long yearned for the thrills of her former lif..

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Rosie Clarke / Annie Aldington Available 10th August 2025

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..













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Helen Carey / Annie Aldington

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..










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Carol MacLean / Lesley Mackie

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..










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Catherine Cookson / Colleen Prendergast

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..




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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin Available 4th August 2025

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

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Anne Bennett / Caroline Lennon

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..




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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a comfortable ho..







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Rosie Meddon / Julia Franklin

Young widow Julia Nance has found happiness again running her beloved guesthouse Fairlight but with ..




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..
















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Val Wood / Anne Dover Available 11th August 2025

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













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Maggie Campbell / Claire Storey

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..




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Anna Jacobs / Peta Cornish Available 13th August 2025

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..




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Rita Bradshaw / Janine Birkett Available 11th August 2025

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