East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

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

October 1941. Despite the hardships of life during wartime Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. En..

August 1940. The war is raging in Europe but on the home front conflict still seems far away. Dot li..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

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

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

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

Will she find the strength to start again? When Jenny Gregory leaves wartime London for the quiet to..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

The South Wales village of Hen Carw Parc is a haven of rural peace. But times are changing and altho..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

Now that her brood had left the nest Fanny McBride a large cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow h..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..

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

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

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

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

Sylvia Joy and Pearl are preparing to compete in a major national ballroom competition - not easy in..

Kent 1953. The Woolworths Erith store a beloved cornerstone of the community faces closure if the De..

Blackpool 1918. _x000D_Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent her flashing green eyes..

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

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

1922. After the horrors of the Great War the close-knit Truscott family returns to everyday life on ..

England 1913. Eighteen-year-old Rose Strong has loved childhood friend Michael Redfern for as long a..

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

A small Welsh town hosts a lively and varied community - and none more so than Nelly Luke the cheerf..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

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

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

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..

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

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

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

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

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

When Thomas Grant - one of the most eligible young men in London - proposes to Annabel Seaton she ca..

Naomi is fighting to free herself from Alexander Harrington who married her for her money and kept a..

Victoria is on her way to Churchwood looking for a life away from the dangers of wartime London for ..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..

Holcombe Hall 1931. Florrie Bickerstaff has finally settled in as the new Housekeeper of Holcombe Ha..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

For Renee Rushmore the arrival of war brings some much-needed freedom. Her father rules the house wi..

Summer 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street the bunting is being brought out and Britain ..

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother Iris calls her home from work one day the..

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

October 1941. Marianne Fordham has a lot to cope with. As well as taking care of her young daughter ..

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron Helen finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly disco..

It's August 1917 and WW1 continues to take a toll. The villagers of Dorcalon try to keep hope alive;..

Growing up without the care of a loving family made Anna Golding fiercely independent. So when war b..

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Tho..

1912. Fifteen-year-old Kate Truscott leaves her small Hampshire village to become a nursemaid to fiv..

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

Fiercely independent Marguerite Sinclair has the opportunity of a lifetime to become a nurse and con..

Little Max is growing day by day and Joan is adjusting to her new life. But in her heart of hearts s..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

Orphaned Jenny and her chimney sweep brother Noah eke out life in a cellar dwelling in the heart of ..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

Blackpool 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blis..

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

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..