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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1906 Beth Jamieson is a little girl of eight with honey gold curls and the sweetest nature. Her f..