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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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