August 1918. World War I is entering its final stages. A generation of young men have given up their..

Shattered by the bitter end of a passionate affair Lizzie Wilde leaves her native north east to seek..

She had the voice of an angel...but it led her to sin A miner's daughter from the village of Annsdal..

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..

Simla 1922 and the summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the Jazz Age. Sim..

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

Young Mikey Quinn scavenging on the streets of Hull is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from..

In a celebrity-obsessed society baby Muffin’s death is big news. Was it cot death or something mor..

Hull 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch adopted as a baby turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic..

Sixteen-year-old Jeannie spends most of her time at Scarborough Harbour - she is a net mender and he..

When Polly Anna’s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the on..

London 1942. With bombs raining down the National Gallery’s most treasured paintings have been hid..

Edinburgh 1923. After four years spent in an orphanage bright spirited 15-year-old Shona Murray find..

Christmas is coming and life is busy for vet Maz Harwood.She has a beautiful baby boy George and she..

1952. Raised by her father Angus and her Aunt Lizzie Rona Maclaren is a flighty young woman with dre..