Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business...

Reverend Jack Brooks and daughter Flo are looking for a fresh start and Chapel Croft appears the per..

When a night out at the theatre is interrupted by the murder of a young woman in Washington Square P..

Twenty-five years ago Maggie Holt and her parents moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Bane..

A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from nov..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three ..