May 1943. The tide of war has turned at last with an Allied victory looking increasingly certain but..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

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..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

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

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..

Christmas Eve 1936. On a foggy December night a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus a..

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

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

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

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

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