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

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

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

1917. Kitty Maitland has found a safe and welcoming home at Dark River Farm Devon and is finally beg..

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

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

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

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..

1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

Rhoda an artist from London and her childhood sweetheart James finally wed following a lot of delibe..

Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony and two are quite happy to forge new lives for t..

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

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is hap..

Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...

“She's not worth more than tuppence that child!” Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe...

Cliffehaven 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are fin..

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

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

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

May 1910. The village of Oystertown is home to those who make their living from the sea. Yet social ..

As war looms in Europe 18-year-old Jane Shaw runs the household as an unpaid servant on a meagre bud..

Gwenllyn Lyons has been raised by her grandmother in the Wye Valley. One afternoon they come across ..

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

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

Jessie Price has travelled the drovers' roads from South Wales to London's Smithfield Market and bec..

As the men fight and the war rages there are some new arrivals on the farm. . . Cambridgeshire - 194..

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

Cecile has been raised to a life of privilege at Polruan House by her widowed father and aunt. Now s..

Since being widowed Caroline Dering has been content to live her life solely for her children. Then ..

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..

Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..

After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..

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

Sally Harper is busy juggling running London's Oxford Street Store Harpers and looking after her bea..

With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..

When her beloved father dies Manon Jenkins is left homeless and alone. She longs for Caradoc Jones s..

When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket Ava..

Grieving for their mother and abandoned by their father Mary and her siblings seek refuge at the fou..

Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..

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

Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

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

East London 1938. Nine-year-old Daisy Purbright is a country girl at heart and together with beloved..

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

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

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

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

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

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

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

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

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

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

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..

1864. Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband Beatrix and her three children are fi..

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..

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..

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

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

In Western Australia the Blake sisters are together again despite what seemed like unsurmountable od..

Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea she is su..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

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

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

Cassandra Blake has raised her three sisters. The girls are the pride of their impractical father Za..

Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..

After escaping the grip of the workhouse Lily has kept her fiance's business afloat while he is away..

Lancashire 1940. Janie and her husband James have a strong loving marriage. A move from an inner-cit..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

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

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

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

Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aun..

From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night Rita Bradshaw comes The Winter Rose a sweepin..

London Spring 1920. Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sall..