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

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

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

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

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

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

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

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

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

York 1940. World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntree's factory and with rationing crip..

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

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

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

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

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

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

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

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

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

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

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

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

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

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

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..

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

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

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

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

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

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

When Betty and her best friend Sally discover a baby tucked in a blanket amongst the rubble at the M..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

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

1942. Determined to do her bit for the war effort Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island hom..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

1931 Cornwall. Gwenna Rosdew had no choice but to step up as head of the family after her father was..

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..

London 1929. Torn between the love of his family life in London and a deathbed promise to an America..

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

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

Liverpool 1847. At 17 Delilah Shaw is the eldest of the eight Shaw siblings and the one who must tak..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

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

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

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

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

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

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

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

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

Jenny starts her training as a nanny but does she have what it takes - and will her family survive w..

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

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

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

Georgina Corrigan is worried. The first women sent to her Percy Place home by the BOBs - an organisa..

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending p..

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

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

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

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..

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

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

Kent 1828. Lizzie Carey of Castle Bay is trapped in a life she never chose - endless days of cooking..

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

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

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

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

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

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

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..