England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..