From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

August 1955. Janice Butler is working as a waitress at her mother’s Blackpool boarding house befor..

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 ..

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..

“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...

Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..

A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..

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

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..

Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..

1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..

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

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

Rhoda an artist from London and her childhood sweetheart James finally wed following a lot of delibe..

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

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..

World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory..

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

Since being widowed Caroline Dering has been content to live her life solely for her children. Then ..

In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

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

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Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...

Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

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

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

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..

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 ..

After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

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..

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

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

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

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

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

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

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

Elsie Barker is desperate for a new start after her husband leaves her. When her friend Izzy - who n..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

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

When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..

When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..

1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before V..

Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..