In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

Welcome to the district nurses’ home on Steeple Street where everyone has a secret…Ambitious you..

Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no lo..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

After the death of their parents Faith and her brother James are raised by an aunt. While James goes..

When Lady Helen Hardingham’s parents say she will never find a better husband than Richard she agr..

A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama. Family secre..

Is love just an illusion? To the outside Clare has everything: a beautiful home a devoted husband an..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

It is 1938 and the threat of war looms on the streets of London. But when the lights go down in the ..

Everyone is worn down by the war which has been raging for five long years but five-year-old evacuee..

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

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

1950. After her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is ..

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

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

It is 1939 and war is looming on the horizon but for nine-year-old Maisie Jackson abused by her crue..

When Carrie Chapman signs up to be an ambulance attendant at the outbreak of World War Two she has l..

In the backstreets of Liverpool Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie daughter Mel and her thre..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

Summer 1939. The de Lacey family believe they are ready for the changes the war will bring. Elizabet..

London 1912. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage. Lester is a brilliant pi..

Charlotte is an only child reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he..

It's been a long hard winter in Burracombe. At Burracombe Barton Hilary Napier is doing her best to ..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

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

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

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

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

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

1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water Derbyshire. Walter Ryan has returned home a broken man and so it falls ..

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

Viv’s marriage to David was not a conventional one but when he died - in an accident for which she..

The village of Burracombe is looking forward to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II but the year of..

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

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

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..

Christmas 1945. The war is over but the Nightingale Hospital still bears the scars. Matron Kathleen ..

Polly Longden’s china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes she ne..

Christmas 1941 and the nurses at the Nightingale are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortage..

After a traumatic past life finally seems to be looking up for Hanna Foster. But war is on its way ...

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End Jenny Mercer is frightened of the wide open spaces and t..

To the student nurses at The Nightingale hospital the ward sisters are heartless and frightening wit..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

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

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

Free-spirited Clemency Kivell is proud of achieving ownership of a music shop in the industrial vill..

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

Andrew Sanderson brilliant surgeon and renowned musician is still grieving the death of his wife Mar..

It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. She travels to the Somme w..

Maureen Matthews has always been a 'deep one' with her head in the clouds and secrets in her heart. ..

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

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

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

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

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

Two years have passed since Livia and her sisters suffered at the hands of their brutal father and a..

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

In 1860’s Yorkshire a woman’s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentlem..

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

1941 the Isle of Dogs. Neglected by their drunken mother young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry ar..

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

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

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

Moments after she is born Tessa Barcussy is branded as 'trouble'. The day she is born her father Fre..

Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in an accident. Although her beloved grandfa..

Manchester 1940. As the war continues and secrets threaten the railway girls they will discover the ..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

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

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

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

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

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's thro..

Madeleine Ingleton has just come home from the Swiss finishing school where she has spent the last t..

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister Peggy. She is the sensible reliable one in t..

1934. Talented eighteen-year-old dancer Bonny Burton joins the chorus at Southampton's Palace of Var..

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora..

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

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

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

The Crying Game opens in 1944 and tells the story of Trixie - a girl who has only ever known turmoil..