December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..
Elsie Barker is desperate for a new start after her husband leaves her. When her friend Izzy - who n..
Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..
Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..
Between work and home life there's plenty to keep Flo occupied. Not least new deputy store manager H..
Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..
With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..
Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington?s dramas are seething beneath the surface. F..
Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..
January 1945 West London: Sylvia Simpson has become an invaluable member of the Marigold's crew - bu..
Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..
The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..
An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..
1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..
There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..
It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..
1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..
Cassandra Blake has raised her three sisters. The girls are the pride of their impractical father Za..
Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..
Rhoda an artist from London and her childhood sweetheart James finally wed following a lot of delibe..
Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..
Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..
Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..
Life is tough for Ella Bancroft. After her father Thomas is wheelchair-bound by an accident at the t..
Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..
Sunderland 1943: With the future of Britain uncertain the shipyard girls fight to keep their lives o..
Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..
Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..
Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..
London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..
Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..
It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..
Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..
Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..
London Spring 1920. Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sall..
Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..
Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..
Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..
Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..
West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..
Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..
Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..
Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
When Pearl?s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - retu..
?She's not worth more than tuppence that child!? Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She..
In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..
Cliffehaven 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are fin..
It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..
Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..
Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..
Anna and Will have been passing in and out of each other's lives since they were just kids._x000D_No..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..
At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..
After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..
When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket Ava..
From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..
Cat Cleary is a 16-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek her fortune. Joe Calligan t..
Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..
Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..
July 1916. In the Rhymney Valley young mother Violet Jones is caring for four-year-old Clarice and b..
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 ..
June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..
1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..
When Sally Beth Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford St..
England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..
1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..
1917. Kitty Maitland has found a safe and welcoming home at Dark River Farm Devon and is finally beg..
Sunderland 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance...Polly's sweetheart Tommy ..
As war looms in Europe 18-year-old Jane Shaw runs the household as an unpaid servant on a meagre bud..
1960. Having been firm friends ever since they met in a Blackpool boarding house five years before V..
London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..
As the men fight and the war rages there are some new arrivals on the farm. . . Cambridgeshire - 194..
Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..
Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..
Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..