Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear..

Liverpool, 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill ..

August, 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother's Blackpool boarding house before..

For ten years, Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack, and as a young unmarried mother, ..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage, Jenny finds herself alone for the first time ..

In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost her house in Bootle ..

May 1945. In post-war Leith, the Anderson family must come to terms with the reality of peacetime Br..

1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to ..

Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community, her..

The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herse..

In 1897, four-year-old Lucy Thornbury's parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly ..

1937, Edinburgh. Attractive, dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts offi..

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