August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..
When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..
Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..
Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..
Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..
Sunderland 1943. Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing Dr Parker of her true feel..
In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..
A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull looking for work. They find somewhere to..
Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..
March 1944 West London: It's been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain's..
Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..
Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..
Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..
1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..
Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..
The close loving family life Rose has known is shattered when the country goes to war. Rose resolves..
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..
Can she finally put herself first in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly working in the Bel..
Jane Hadley has nothing to lose when she runs away to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Whatever..
East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..
Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..
The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..
Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..
Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..
For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..
Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..
Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..
After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..
When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..
Kent 1814. Molly Dawson now a respectable married woman lives with her husband and three daughters o..
1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..
Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..
Feisty Irish gypsy girl Tamara Redmond is just sixteen when she overhears her parents planning her w..
October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..
Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..
Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..
Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..
Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..
Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..
Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..
York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...
Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is ..
1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..
Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..
In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..
Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..
1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..
Summer 1942. Britain is in the depths of war and the Women's Land Army is hard at work looking after..
In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..
When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determ..
December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..
Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..
London 1942. Charlotte Fenimore is back home on a week's leave from the Women's Auxiliary Airforce. ..
1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..
When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..
His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..
Dover 1864. Violet Rayfield leads a happy life with her family in a beautiful terrace on Camden Cres..
In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..
Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..
In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..
London 1942: Flo Canning's heart is beyond repair following the news that she has been dreading sinc..
Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..
It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..
Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..
Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..
Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..
Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..
London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..
Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..
Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..
Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..
September 1942 Having done her duty as an ATS girl Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new chall..
It's 1941 and as the Second World War rages on girls from all over the country are signing up to the..
Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..
London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..
1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..