It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
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 w..
In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..
May 1945. In post-war Leith the Anderson family must come to terms with the reality of peacetime Bri..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..
The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..
Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..
August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boarding house befor..
When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..
It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..
A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..
Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..
When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..
January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..
After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..
For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..
June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..
Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..
Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..
In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..
1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..
World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory..
1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to ..
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..
1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..
Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..