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

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

The Great War is over and Millie is ready to leave her loving family home and be a wife to Jeremy. B..

She's on trial for murder. . . Now it's her turn to tell her story. . . The truth is that I loved Ja..

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

West Yorkshire 1914. Newly married to Noah Jackson Beth is happily content working on her family's m..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

1864. Following the untimely death of her cold-hearted husband Beatrix and her three children are fi..

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

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

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

1925 a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson in Germany to seek the answers to a tan..

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

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

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

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

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

Oxford Street London 1915Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days o..

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

Gosport 1941. The Bluebird Girls - Rainey Bird Bea Herron and Ivy Sparrow - are on their way to star..

Since escaping his family?s notoriety in Australia Will Kidd has been content to live the life of a ..

Rose has a promising future stretching out before her until a cruel twist of fate seizes it. Will sh..

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

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

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

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

Alison had been blessed by nature all her life - only I knew the other darker side of her character...

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

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

Since being widowed Caroline Dering has been content to live her life solely for her children. Then ..

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share which is set high up in the limestone escar..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

Rationing bombing disease and pit disasters are part of Rose Kelly's World War 2 childhood. When the..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow?s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep h..

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

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

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

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

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

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother?s death ten yea..

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

London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..

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

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

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

On the day that her youngest child leaves home Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a mat..

When forest protests engulf a tiny Tasmanian timber town one family's century of secrets threatens t..

With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters Nella Martini returns to Torrente..

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

Tasmania 1929: Ten-year-old-twins Tom and Harry Abbott are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart ..

It's 1944. London's citizens are weary of air raids and rationing. But there are rumours of an invas..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

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

Following heavy casualties General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Ama..

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

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

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

England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. T..

Join the Marsh family again as they spend Christmas with Millie and Jeremy at Chateau Dumont. It's a..

After spending time combatting terrorists in Malaya James Dering returns to Scotland. He starts a ne..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna only 26 and grieving for the loss ..

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family a nice home a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

Devon 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the..

1943 and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA visiting army b..

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

In the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry ..

When Molly Holden?s husband Thomas is convicted of being a Luddite on the word of a secret informer ..

London 1913. The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their l..

Working at the Foyles bookshop was Molly Cooper's dream job. But with the country at war she's deter..

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

Toby is the new owner of the old inn an unwitting keeper of its secrets. Then Meg Staley comes to Ca..

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-yea..

Halifax 1876. On the death of her mother and sister Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and ..

A new century brings change to Eden Harris's ordered world. Despite years of service to the Bradbury..

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

Cambridgeshire - March 1939As the clouds of war begin to gather in Europe the Talbot family of rural..