Thirteen-year-old Bella lives at the Woodman Inn - an ancient hostelry run by her family in the York..

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

Annie Swinburn had killed a man - the killing was well-deserved for Francis Morton had been evil in ..

1860. Harriet is trying to care for her ill mother and has just lost her job. The last thing she exp..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury?s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly u..

For ten years Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack and as a young unmarried mother lif..

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

Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister Bea. Wh..

1850. Beatrix is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Upon meeting her futu..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

Although she believes nothing can come of it ladies' maid Daisy March is eagerly awaiting the return..

Despite an early life marked by tragedy and hardship Beth Sherwin dreams of staying on at school and..

When Rosie Jones' lover Sean Quinnan is killed in a building accident she knows the blame lies with ..

Pretty and bright Cleopatra Kelly dreams of a life without the shadow of fear cast by her abusive st..

With her mother dead her crippled father a broken and bitter man and her elder brother deeply in deb..