It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..