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

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

March 1940. Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the t..

Charlotte is an only child reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he..

Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End Jenny Mercer is frightened of the wide open spaces and t..

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

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

Hull 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch adopted as a baby turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic..

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

Sarah Foster?s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is in..

Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote island East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the ..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

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