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Rosie Clarke / Laura Kirman

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

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Ellie Dean / Julie Maisey

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

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Anna Jacobs / Anne Dover

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

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Mary Wood / Penelope Freeman

Alice an upper-class Londoner is recruited into the Special Operations Executive and sent to Paris w..




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Kay Seeley / Annie Aldington

When Nell Draper leaves the workhouse to care for the five-year-old son of Lord Eversham a wealthy l..

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Fenella J. Miller / Helen Keeley

White Waltham 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon Ellie's doing what she does..

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Millie Gray / Lesley Mackie

It's 1962 and Freda Scott and her five schoolmates are eager to embark on their life journeys. Madly..




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..




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Mary Jane Staples / Annie Aldington

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her ..

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Sylvia Broady / Catherine Harvey

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




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Katie Flynn; Judith Saxton / Anne Dover

When war broke out 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk where s..

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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..




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Glenda Young / Janine Birkett

'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the ba..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

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

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..




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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

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

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Rosie Clarke / Claire Morgan

As the men fight and the war rages there are some new arrivals on the farm. . . Cambridgeshire - 194..

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Lilian Harry / Anne Dover

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..




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Catherine Cookson / Colleen Prendergast

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

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Maisie Thomas / Julia Franklin

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




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Rosie Archer / Tamsin Kennard

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

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Fenella J. Miller / Helen Keeley

Hampshire 1940. Ellie Simpson is attached to an Air Transport Auxiliary base in Hampshire. Life as a..

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Catherine Cookson / Colleen Prendergast

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




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Daisy Styles / Helen Lloyd

Lake District 1942. Spring is in the air at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home. Beautiful Stella has bee..

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Joanna Toye / Rosalind Lailey

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

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Katie Flynn; Judith Saxton / Anne Dover Available 16th August 2025

Is love just an illusion? To the outside Clare has everything: a beautiful home a devoted husband an..




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June Francis / Anne Dover

1961. Lucia once dreamed of a man who would love her. She has lost hope because what man would when ..




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Maggie Mason / Anne Dover

As war approaches Alice Edith and Marg fear for the safety of their families while trying to decide ..

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Susanna Bavin / Julia Franklin

After losing all her family in the Great War Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert. However five ye..

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Margaret Thornton / Julia Franklin

Having been recently widowed in her forties shy Jane Redfern finally plucks up the courage to go on ..




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June Francis / Anne Dover

Young Jeanette Walker often wonders what became of her mother who disappeared without trace during a..

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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

Rosemary Palmer-Farr loves farming and animals and has spent much of her childhood at Bengairney Far..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

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Anna Jacobs / Anne Dover

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..




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Daisy Styles / Helen Lloyd

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

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Maggie Bennett / Anne Dover

1938 Britain and Germany are on the brink of war and tension and fear is felt throughout Europe. In ..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Coming up 16 Tilly Trotter is different from the other girls in her village. Tall for her age and co..




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Leah Fleming / Jack Paulin

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..

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Fiona Ford / Annie Aldington

September 1942. Mary arrives in London to take up a new post as a fabric-cutter at Liberty's Carnaby..




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Pam Evans / Annie Aldington

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover

Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was well-deserved for Francis Morton had been evil in ..




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Val Wood / Anne Dover

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

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Catherine Cookson / Andrew Wincott

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

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

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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

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




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Evie Grace / Penelope Freeman

Canterbury 1853. Agnes Berry-Clay might have been born into rags but she is growing up with riches. ..

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Anne Baker / Julia Franklin

It's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and Milly Travis there's nothing quite like the thrill of the funfa..

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Holly Green / Julie Maisey

After her mother's death Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But Dora is mixe..

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Amanda Brookfield / Charlotte Strevens

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




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Rosie Clarke / Polly Edsell

With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..




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Fenella J. Miller / Helen Keeley

1942. The ATA is calling upon its most trusted pilots to deliver precious bombers wherever they're n..

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Anna Jacobs / Peta Cornish

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




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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

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

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

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




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Emma Hornby / Julia Franklin

Manchester 1867. Mara longs for a peaceful life free of violence and poverty. But she has married in..

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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..




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AnneMarie Brear / Charlotte Strevens

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland...

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

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

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Glenda Young / Hannah Genesius

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..




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Catherine Cookson / Annie Aldington

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Anna Jacobs / Anne Dover

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

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Betty Firth / Claire Storey

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




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Pam Evans / Annie Aldington

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Catherine Cookson / Julia Franklin

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

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Rosie Clarke / Polly Edsell

LONDON 1917. As the Americans enter the War there is renewed energy in the war effort. With husbands..




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Lyn Andrews / Julie Maisey

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

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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

In the years following the end of World War II life at the Glens of Lochandee is tough. Many familie..

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Francesca Capaldi / Eilidh Beaton

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

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Ellie Dean / Penelope Freeman

It is 1942 and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her 18th birthday and said goodbye ..




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E.V. Thompson / Patience Tomlinson

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..

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Millie Gray / Lesley Mackie

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..




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Anne Baker / Anne Dover Available 12th August 2025

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Kate Eastham / Polly Edsell

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

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Kay Brellend / Annie Adlington

Olivia Bone and her siblings haven?t had an easy life. But then Livvie's fiance Joe is killed at Ypr..




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

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Susan Sallis / Nicolette McKenzie

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..




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AnneMarie Brear / Caroline Lennon

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

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Rosie Clarke / Juliette Burton

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

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Lynn Johnson / Julia Franklin

Needing to find a job Betty Dean is sent into service at Stowford House. The work is gruelling and h..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

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