When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

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

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

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

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

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

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

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

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

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

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

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

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

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

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

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

Carrie Anderson's business selling books at her local train station is thriving and with her beloved..

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

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..

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

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron?Helen?finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly discove..

Anna and Will have been passing in and out of each other's lives since they were just kids._x000D_No..

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

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

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

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

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

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

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

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

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

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

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

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

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

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

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

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

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

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

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

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

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

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..

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

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

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

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

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

1931 Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was..

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

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