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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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