Manchester 1908. Attractive intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will..
Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..
Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..
Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..
Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..
Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..
Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..
Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..
In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..
As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..
After the tragic death of her father aspiring singer Jessie Delaney has been forced to live with her..
When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..
Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..
Sent to the workhouse as a child all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering `Dearie promis..
Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..
Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..
Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..
November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..
Manchester 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching p..
The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..
Wales 1943. Sara Lewis should be heartbroken when her husband doesn't return from war. But he was ne..
Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..
A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..
1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend the previously f..
Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..
After her daughter Arabella passes away leaving a poor motherless child in her wake Nell Almond does..
Determined not to waste his life toiling for his cruel brother Silas arrives in town to seek his for..
When war broke out 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk where s..
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..
Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..
In the drab Yorkshire town of Garsthwaite Lacey Barraclough works hard in the textile mill determine..
1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..
When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..
1961. Lucia once dreamed of a man who would love her. She has lost hope because what man would when ..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..
Throughout County Tipperary the three sisters were known as the Sisters O'Donnell. Together they mov..
With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters Nella Martini returns to Torrente..
Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..
Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..
A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a j..
October 1942. Viola loves her new job away from the factory and hopes that her romance with the hand..
Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..
Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..
Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..
1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..
August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..
1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..
Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..
Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..
York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...
It's 1943 and Ireland has escaped the worst of the war raging in Europe but life is still hard. When..
Ada Houston's life is shattered when her brother Frank goes missing following an accident at the doc..
Leith 1953: The war is over a young queen has been crowned and eighteen-year-old Kirsten Mowat is gl..
It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..
Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..
Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..