Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..
Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..
Manchester 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage pe..
1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..
Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..
London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..
Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father a small-time crook has an ulterior moti..
It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..
1949. To pursue her daughter?s destiny Fay must train in London and Peggy is faced with a dilemma of..
Will Christmas bring an unexpected reunion? Frances O'Leary has always dreamed of being a dancer. Bu..
When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..
Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..
Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..
Sent to the workhouse as a child all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering `Dearie promis..
Sophia Seddon?and?Grace Thompson?are poles apart - one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plover S..
London 1940. After her fianc? breaks off their engagement Evelyn decides to do her part for the war ..
Still grieving the death of her watchman husband in a terrorist attack during the Outrages factory w..
Thea's loathsome stepbrother is trying to trick her out of her inheritance of her parents' beautiful..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..
As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..
Germany 1945. Detta?works as a translator for a Nazi-run labour camp for French workers. One winter ..
A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..
Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..
1961. Lucia once dreamed of a man who would love her. She has lost hope because what man would when ..
1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..
Barbara Roberts pretty mischievous and 17 has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family..
When war broke out 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk where s..
Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..
After the tragic death of her father aspiring singer Jessie Delaney has been forced to live with her..
Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..
August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..
Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..
Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..
Manchester 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching p..
When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..
York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...
1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..
Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..
Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..
Manchester 1908. Attractive intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will..
Wales 1943. Sara Lewis should be heartbroken when her husband doesn't return from war. But he was ne..
It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..
Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..
Ada Houston's life is shattered when her brother Frank goes missing following an accident at the doc..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..
November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..
Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..
Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..
Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..
Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..
Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..
After her daughter Arabella passes away leaving a poor motherless child in her wake Nell Almond does..
Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..
With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters Nella Martini returns to Torrente..
A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a j..
London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..
In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..
1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..
In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..
Wales 1908. Still grieving the tragic death of her father and deserted by her stepmother Nellie Rhia..
In the drab Yorkshire town of Garsthwaite Lacey Barraclough works hard in the textile mill determine..
Leith 1953: The war is over a young queen has been crowned and eighteen-year-old Kirsten Mowat is gl..
Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..
Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..
Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..
Determined not to waste his life toiling for his cruel brother Silas arrives in town to seek his for..
Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..
It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both a..
Victoria Wild is only four years old but already knows about heartbreak having been abandoned by her..
Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..
East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..
Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..
Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..
1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend the previously f..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..
The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..
Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..
Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother?s death ten yea..
Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..
October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..