Soon after Sarah Nolan arrives in Cork she befriends sixteen-year-old Lucy who has been left abandon..

Oona Quinn grief-stricken by the tragic deaths of her husband and five-year-old daughter. Struggling..

Feisty Irish gypsy girl Tamara Redmond is just sixteen when she overhears her parents planning her w..

1914. While their men fight in France at home in Britain women are finally seizing the opportunity t..

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

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

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

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

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

Rowan Sykes is overjoyed when her beloved older sister Laurel takes a new job and moves back home to..

Barbara Roberts pretty mischievous and 17 has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family..

Jo Kingsley is transported from her turbulent childhood of domestic servitude to the sophisticated l..

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

San Francisco 1904: Georgia Briscoe is in love with British sailor Ellis Cowper but unwillingly betr..

1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put ..