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

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

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

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

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

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

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

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

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

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

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

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

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

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

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..