In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

Eleven-year-old Stella Barry is forced into service when her family find themselves living hand-to-m..

February 1941. Julie Harris is working in London?s East End as a midwife when a bombing raid destroy..

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

Britain is at war and May Lynch loves the life she?s leading as a pilot and poster girl for the Air ..

When Daisy?s family lose their croft on the Connemara coast her Aunt Jane housekeeper to Dr and Mrs ..

As Europe edges closer to war Bella's world is focused on avoiding a future like her mother's. She d..

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

It's Christmas Eve 1920 when Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart. Leaving everything she's ever know..

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

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

Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their..

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

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..

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

It is 1907. Liverpool is a bustling and busy city. Sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are just 16 and 13..

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

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

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

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

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address so when she needs to join the library she c..

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

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

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

It is 1940 and Staff Nurse Polly Brown has been granted a posting at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital o..

After the death of her parents in a bombing raid Mary Jones discovers a secret in her father?s diari..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

September 1940. As Luftwaffe bombs rain from the skies over London the women of Lavender Road are fi..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

1925 a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson in Germany to seek the answers to a tan..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter the notorious ..

As the Japanese begin their assault on Singapore Sarah Fuller and her sister Jane are forced to leav..

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

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

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

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

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

As the Great War rages Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham is threa..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

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

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

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

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

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

Kent 1822. Fearing for his life Thomas Marsh has fled Castle Bay and found work as a mill hand deep ..

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

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

In the small mining village of Meryen a dark secret lurks?Amy Lewarne finds her life changed forever..

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

Laura Collins is struggling to make a good life for her daughters Tess and Tina. So when she is offe..

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

When Commander Martin Black is shot down over enemy territory and ends up in a POW camp his wife Ann..

Cathie Kinrade is used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930..

Living in the Stationmaster's cottage at Partick Carrie Burgess leads a charmed life cushioned from ..

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

It?s 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come knocking at the door of Beac..

1939. When war sends five displaced children to her door Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be t..

Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow?s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep h..

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

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

When 16-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast she is terrified by what lies ahead o..

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

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

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

As the war takes its toll the Nightingale nurses must do their bit for king and country?Dora is the ..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

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

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

When Florrie Maltby refuses to marry Gervase Richards she sets off a chain of events that will alter..

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

BLACKPOOL 1914. Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poo..

Naomi is upset to find a nasty anonymous letter land on her doorstep. Who could've sent something li..

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

Heiress Tara Nankervis is beautiful yet pained. She is forced to share a devastating secret with her..

Despite her privileged upbringing Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She ..

In a small seaside town popular with summer visitors Cecily and Ada run their father's grocery shop...