Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

Eleanor Saint loves helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grand..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

For Amelia and her siblings the grim past which their mother Emily had endured seemed very far away...

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

Lottie and her mother Louella share a house in Victoria Court with Mr Magic and his son Baz. Lottie ..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

Anna and Will have been passing in and out of each other's lives since they were just kids._x000D_No..

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

Manchester 1867. Mara longs for a peaceful life free of violence and poverty. But she has married in..

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

As a small child Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother?s rejection. Abandoned and s..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aun..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

1917. A farm girl from Cavan Veronica McDermott is desperate to find more to life than peeling potat..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

The compelling new family drama from the nation?s favourite storyteller.Florence Stanville is a woma..

The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury?s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly u..

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Welcome to the district nurses? home on Steeple Street where everyone has a secret?Ambitious young n..

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

Kay Duffield's fianc? is about to leave the country and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when ..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Imogen Rita and Debby all missed the original evacuation and now the authorities are finding it diff..

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

1944. Rosie Sinclair is proud to be doing her bit for the war effort as a driver at Cottisbourne Par..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

1890 Western Australia. 14-year-old Sarette Maitland is orphaned when her father dies of a snake bit..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

When Daisy?s family lose their croft on the Connemara coast her Aunt Jane housekeeper to Dr and Mrs ..

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Nell Whitaker is 15 when war breaks out and her mother sends her to live with her Auntie Kath in a r..

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..