Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

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

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

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

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

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

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

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

Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

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

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

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

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

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

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

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

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

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

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

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

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

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

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

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

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

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

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

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

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool only friendship and community can keep the women of Weav..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

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

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

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

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

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

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

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

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

After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dora Fairweather wasn't cut out to be a wife and mother and as soon as she's able she turns her back..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liverpool 1847. At 17 Delilah Shaw is the eldest of the eight Shaw siblings and the one who must tak..