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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two girls - one street. Two families across a social divide. As a child Josie Ford fiery and ambitio..

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ten-year-old Amy Farthing miraculously survives the sinking of the Lusitania but loses both her pare..

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

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

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

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

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

She had the voice of an angel...but it led her to sin A miner's daughter from the village of Annsdal..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At twenty-five teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her parents her brothers lost in the Great ..

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

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

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