With the approach of war about to bring heartache to families all over England Elsie Mead longs to d..

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

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

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

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

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

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

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

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

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

Lancashire 1940. Janie and her husband James have a strong loving marriage. A move from an inner-cit..

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

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

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

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

May 1941. Three young women join the war effort during the Yorkshire Blitz. Connie an ARP warden per..

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

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

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

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

Jessie Price has travelled the drovers' roads from South Wales to London's Smithfield Market and bec..

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

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

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

July 1941 As the war grinds on Lady Joanna Harcourt knows that her time at Goodwill House is drawing..

Thea's loathsome stepbrother is trying to trick her out of her inheritance of her parents' beautiful..

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

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

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

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

Cleethorpes - 1940. As the new year dawns the show at the Empire comes to an end and it's time for t..

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

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

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

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

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

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

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

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

After being orphaned as a child Mary is taken in by her mother’s friend - and ex-prostitute - Nell..

Christmas time is fast approaching at Mary Vale and newcomer Libby is ready to start a fresh chapter..

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

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

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

East London 1915. While the man she loves is away fighting Lily Larkin wakes up at dawn to carry cra..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

London Spring 1920. Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sall..

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

If you're born with nothing you have to make your own luck. When Jared Johnson first meets Clarice C..

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

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

September 1940_x000D__x000D_With harvest approaching land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she plo..

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

Cambridgeshire - 1941_x000D_As the war rages on in Europe it brings untold heartache to the Talbot f..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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