Orphaned Eliza Dunlop has been working as a companion to a rich but cantankerous old lady Miss Grego..

In 1930s Scotland families are starving and thousands of farms lie derelict. But Fairlyden has survi..

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

It is March 1950 and Honey Brown marries the farmer she adores - August Blake Esq. With her mother-i..

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

In the chaos aboard the sinking Titanic Mair Parsons is separated from her infant daughter Catherine..

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

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

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

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

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

After the death of her mother during childbirth Beth is left to care for her father and two older br..

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

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..