Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..
Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..
In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..
Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..
Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..
Rhoda an artist from London and her childhood sweetheart James finally wed following a lot of delibe..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..
Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..
Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..
World-renowned war artist Dame Laura Knight is commissioned to paint propaganda portraits of factory..
May 1945. In post-war Leith the Anderson family must come to terms with the reality of peacetime Bri..
Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..
Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..
Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..
For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..
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..
The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..
When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..
Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..
It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..
Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..
Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..
When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..
1917. Kitty Maitland has found a safe and welcoming home at Dark River Farm Devon and is finally beg..
After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..
Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..
After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..
January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..
Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..
London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..
Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..
Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..
“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...
Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..
Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..
Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..
Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..
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..
When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and..
1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..
Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..
1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before V..
1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to ..
Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..
June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly’s sister Doris must seek..
Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..
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..
Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..