In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

Grace and Dougie have been courting for years so when Dougie decides to emigrate to Australia he exp..

Manchester 1943. Emily is enjoying her new job as a station porter until she learns that a trusted f..

Seventeen-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed earning her keep in Miss Chapma..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

As the drums of war begin to beat louder on the continent 17-year-old Jeannie McIver heads to the wi..

And head welder Rosie's little sister Charlotte has turned up unannounced. Why is she back and so se..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

When Jennifer Tucker arrives in the sleepy Devonshire village of Burracombe she's searching for more..

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

The Weston family have always pinned their hopes for creating a dynasty on their glamorous granddaug..

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

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

Cliffehaven 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are fin..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

As war approaches Alice Edith and Marg fear for the safety of their families while trying to decide ..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in An..

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

Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly Mirabel finds hersel..

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

Daisy Bacon has an ordinary happy life living with her family in South London until tragedy strikes ..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

After the Second World War Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotla..

It's 1944 and three very different women join a touring variety group and travel through Europe perf..

West Yorkshire 1901. When Eli Simmonite takes in a heavily pregnant woman fleeing from peril he feel..

Shattered by the bitter end of a passionate affair Lizzie Wilde leaves her native north east to seek..

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

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

In 1915 three women start work at a toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham. A..

Sophia Seddon and Grace Thompson are poles apart - one a member of the notorious Seddons of Plove..

Sheffield 1867. It's the height of a long-running and violent campaign known as the Outrages where m..

Hucknall 1941. Female conscription looms and three women arrive at the Bell Works Factory to work on..

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother a famous French impressionist painter in ..

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

Eleanor Saint loves helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grand..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..

It's been several years since Kitty Cavanah's life was turned upside down when her family made the p..

Ireland 1848. The potato famine has left the Cavanah family destitute. Kitty and Peter manage to sec..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

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

When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age he began by inviting Welsh bus..

Manchester industrialist William Rose was a poor lad who pulled himself up by his bootstraps but in ..

Clydebank 1911. Ellen works at the Sewing Machine factory. So does her sister Bridget Bridget's fian..

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

The Tsar's Dragons series follows the epic tale of nineteenth-century industrialist John Hughes who ..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Motherhood is every woman's right and the natural outcome of a happy marriage. But what then when a ..

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen Lucy Pocket has spent all her life with her di..

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult but she is struggling more than ever to find t..

It’s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale H..

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..

Eliza Jones and her husband Bryn had a whirlwind romance and married shortly after meeting but he wa..

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

The Pratchett family have to contend with coalman Alfie Pratchett's obsessive jealousy. A bully his ..

1916. After Olivia Bone's romance with Lieutenant Lucas Black is cut short by his return to the fron..

Pendragon Island is the perfect place for holidays with a stretch of clean golden sand and a gloriou..

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

Grinding poverty and violence are on everyday part of life in Glasgow's slums during the 1920s. But ..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

Clemmie throws herself into volunteering with the very organisation who helped her and her sisters w..

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

England 1940. District Nurse Annie Russell and her mother are listening anxiously to the local boys ..