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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..

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

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

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

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

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

Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for over 20 years the wives of fishermen in ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February 1945. When April Green's father is killed by a bomb life without him is hard to bear. April..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Lake District 1908.It seems as though Livia Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large..

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

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

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

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