After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liver..

As war looms in Europe 18-year-old Jane Shaw runs the household as an unpaid servant on a meagre bud..

A poignant touching and epic tale of lost love set against the drama and danger of World War Two. 19..

Francesca the golden voice of London’s nightlife was at the height of her career destined for star..

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with their widowed mother Nell in a flat above her shop. Addy is plai..

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

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

London 1899. As she prepares for a glittering ball 20-year-old Gertrude Melrose considers her good f..

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

It’s January 1955 and for the residents of Meadow Lane a small community of seven terraced houses ..

It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. Katie O’Neill’s child..

June 1940. Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work 17-yea..

Nell Goodman is a good daughter. Her job in the local brewery is the only thing keeping her and her ..

While her mother is at home giving birth eleven-year-old Isa must look after her younger siblings bu..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

In a small seaside town popular with summer visitors Cecily and Ada run their father's grocery shop...

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

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

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

It has finally happened! The war is over and Europe rejoices. May 1945 - VE Day. After battling agai..

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

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

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

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

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

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

After her brother’s death Megan Oliphant continued writing to his best friend Steven Caraford. Now..

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

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

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

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

Joe Lennox becomes deranged and blames Billy Caraford when his son is killed in a car accident but B..

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

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

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

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

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

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

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

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

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

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

The truth is Ella is hiding from a scandal. A scandal that drove her family out of their beloved Lan..

Rosemary Palmer-Farr loves farming and animals and has spent much of her childhood at Bengairney Far..

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

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

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

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

The year is 1917 and Barbara Jones is shocked to be told that she is carrying a child. Her boyfriend..

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

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

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

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

Liverpool 1958: Nursery nurse Irene Miller falls for her friend Peggy's handsome older brother Marty..

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

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

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

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

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three ..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

1890 Western Australia. 14-year-old Sarette Maitland is orphaned when her father dies of a snake bit..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

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

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

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

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

Claudia Muldoon and her sister Jenny live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen ..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother Iris calls her home from work one day the..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

In the aftermath of the Second World War two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie ..

France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the t..

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

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

January 1936. Sarah a young executive at a Yorkshire mill returns home to attend her grandfather's f..

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

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

Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin who had gone away to college when u..