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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly?s sister Doris must seek r..

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

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..

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

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