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