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

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

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

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

The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at fir..

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

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

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

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

It's August 1917 and WW1 continues to take a toll. The villagers of Dorcalon try to keep hope alive;..

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

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

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

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

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

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

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

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

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

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

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

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

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 her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..

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

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

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

Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks' life. Marrying handsome Sam th..

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

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

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

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

It is 1919 and Liverpool has been devastated by World War I. Sons husbands and fathers have been los..

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

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..

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

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

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

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