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Lancashire, 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, he spends a few years travelli..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and it falls to her to become so..

Lancashire, 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie, scrim..

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..