It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..
Elsie Barker is desperate for a new start after her husband leaves her. When her friend Izzy - who n..
Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..
Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..
January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..
Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..
Rhoda an artist from London and her childhood sweetheart James finally wed following a lot of delibe..
When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..
From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..
Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...
1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..
Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..
Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..
Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..
Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..
Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..
Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..
1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..
Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..
After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..
In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..
Since being widowed Caroline Dering has been content to live her life solely for her children. Then ..
Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..
Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..
Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..
Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..
August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boarding house befor..
The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..
In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..
1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before V..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..
1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to ..
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..
In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..
Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..
When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..
“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..
Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..
June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..
Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..
After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..
Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..
When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..
It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..
For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..
World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory..
Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..
1917. Kitty Maitland has found a safe and welcoming home at Dark River Farm Devon and is finally beg..
Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..
Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..
London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..
Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..
May 1945. In post-war Leith the Anderson family must come to terms with the reality of peacetime Bri..