Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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