Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

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

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

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

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

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

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

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

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

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

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

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

Northumberland 1909. When Shona Hardy's husband is lost at sea she finds herself alone in a village ..

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