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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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