When Rachel Booker?s father dies deep in debt her mother must harden herself to make ends meet. Moth..

Cockney born Nelly Luke is an essential part of the community. Yet not even Nelly with her shrewd ey..

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

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

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

Liverpool 1938. It?s Christmas in the Courts and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous tw..

1901. Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family while Edward grew up with an abus..

Cornwall 1793. As the French Revolution threatens the stability of England so too is discontent brew..

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

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

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

Sent to the workhouse as a child all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering `Dearie promis..

Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father the only ripple in Tess Delamere'..

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

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

Cornwall 1796. Seamstress Elowyn Liddicot's family believe they've secured the perfect future for he..

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

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

Rowan Sykes is overjoyed when her beloved older sister Laurel takes a new job and moves back home to..

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

Susan Cahill enjoys her job at the BBC until a bomb destroys the building and brings a new boss Walt..

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

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

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's thro..

East Kent 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a conten..

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

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

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

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

August 1944. Allied troops are fighting their way across Europe. But rocket attacks on London are a ..

London 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country the Nightingale Hospital has its own set..

Hitler's war is reaching out to affect every member of the Neyler family. Val Neyler driving an ambu..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

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..

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

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

London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..

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

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

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

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

After a family tragedy Janey Carhart was forced from her comfortable life as a captain?s daughter in..

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

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

June 1944. As the planes continue to circle over Cliffehaven Peggy Reilly?s sister Doris must seek r..

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

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

1935: As the Depression bites beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in ..

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

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

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

As World War One begins no family including the Neylers will be left untouched and by the time the w..

Poplar London 1920. Fourteen-year-old Victoria Keats is horrified when her father demands that she g..

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

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

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

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

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

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

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

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

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

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

It is 1931 and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however and a new gene..

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

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..

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

1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death. Determined to make her own way in the worl..

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

Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear ..

Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

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

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

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

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

August 1940As Autumn approaches Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House -..

Cliffehaven 1944. Peggy Reilly is enjoying a rare moment alone in the garden of her Beach View Board..

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

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

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

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city?s Town Guard Robe..

Kay Duffield's fianc? is about to leave the country and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when ..

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

Liverpool 1939. As winter descends on Tuppenny Corner and rumours of war float across the canals 15-..