Evacuated to the countryside she realises there are more dangers than German bombs in wartime… Can..

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

Sisters Alice and Annie have always been close but will a man come between them? Annie and Alice lov..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The war to end all wars has come to an end and Nell Tanner is overjoyed to have her father home. But..

Jonathan Ratcliffe is the successful manager of Affleck and Tate's engineering works. He has succeed..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

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

Kathleen Gallagher is 16 when she shares her first kiss with Liam Flynn the older brother of her bes..

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

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

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

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

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

When Lucy's estranged mother dies unexpectedly her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

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

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

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

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

The Great War has ended but Jack's toffee factory struggles after years of sugar rations and its tro..

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

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

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

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

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

In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..

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

Cliffehaven 1947. In the wake of heartbreaking loss Roisin Reilly makes a promise to her granddaught..

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

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

May 1943. The tide of war has turned at last with an Allied victory looking increasingly certain but..

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

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

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..

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

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

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

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

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover t..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

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

1950. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister Eliza have the perfect lives wantin..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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