Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

Kay Duffield's fianc? is about to leave the country and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when ..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

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

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

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