All Rachel Campbell really wants is a better life for herself and her children but as the Second Wor..

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

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

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

In the dark days following the Blitz young Pearl Jenkins finds happiness as she celebrates her marri..

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

Will she find the strength to start again? When Jenny Gregory leaves wartime London for the quiet to..

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

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

Winter 1919 Two months after the Armistice that ended the Great War and life in London's East End is..

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

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

Nothing can change her love for her son Gloria and Joe were the golden couple until tragedy left..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community her ..

1928 The Isle of Dogs. When her sailor husband goes missing presumed drowned Eve Kumar struggles to ..

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

In September 1940 the Isle of Dogs suffers the first terrible night of a nine-month Blitz. Amidst th..

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

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

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

Rosie's family doesn't have much money but she's rich in other ways and when Danny Walsh asks her to..

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

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

When Rosalind West leaves her native Durham for a job in London with the Doxbridge Motor Company she..

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

Ever since they were children playing Mary and Joseph in the school nativity play Breda Hanney and W..

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

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

Family forgiveness and cupcakes - a recipe for a story you won't forget.Ever since the Bommarito sis..

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

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

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

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

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

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

When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother she is forced to leave London to live with her est..

It is August 1900 and ten-year-old Maddy Moon is relishing the prospect of a long summer in Scarboro..

Young Quinta Haig is struggling to make ends meet at Top Field with ailing mother Laura. Noah Bilton..

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

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

Can a family learn to put the past behind them?It's October 1954 and life in post-war Britain is slo..

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

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

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

It is 1945 and in the Yorkshire market town of Middlebeck fifteen-year-old Maisie Jackson is waiting..

A heart-breaking choice between love and duty...York 1886. Sarah-Lou has just left school and is re..

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

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

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

They're about to follow their dreams all the way back home... Sam Newby loves the rolling hills and ..

Wiltshire, December 1915. Widow Olivia Harbury has been persuaded by her cousin Donald to live with ..

Salter's Grange, County Armagh, 1932. For Sam Hamilton and Robert Scott, the world has changed great..

Lizzie finds that life in the Birmingham blitz is hard. Her husband is fighting abroad and her young..

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

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

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

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

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

When Julia Bennett leaves her abusive fiance at the altar she knows life will never be the same agai..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

1930 the Isle of Dogs. Young Lily Bright works long hours on a market stall selling furniture and b..

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

The Lake District 1908.It seems as though Livia Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large..

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

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

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

After the birth of their son Tom Eliza naively hopes her husband Jack will put his gambling days beh..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..

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

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

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

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

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

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

London 1916. It’s only when her father dies that Louisa and her mother realise just how much debt ..

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..

August 1918. World War I is entering its final stages. A generation of young men have given up their..

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