Despite an early life marked by tragedy and hardship Beth Sherwin dreams of staying on at school and..

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

Daniel has lived his whole life with his mother adoptive father and his stepbrothers and sister in a..

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

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her ..

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

It's the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital. Helen is at a cr..

Britain is at war and May Lynch loves the life she?s leading as a pilot and poster girl for the Air ..

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

Zoe Mellor seems to have everything - looks money and a top job in a Bond Street gallery. Yet life h..

Janet Scott loves books and learning and is happy living at the schoolhouse where her grandfather is..

Rosa grew up an orphan in a remote island East coast of Yorkshire. Taken in as a small child by the ..

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

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

What possible connections might exist between an aged man who used to sell shoes some ladies of the ..

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

In 1871 young Daisy Fraser is living in the Yorkshire Dales with her beloved family. Her sister Kitt..

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

The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

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

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..

In 1955 Scotland Road residents fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish th..

Fearless Felicity Penrose thrives on adventure: she's one of the most experienced female sailors in ..

February 1945. When April Green's father is killed by a bomb life without him is hard to bear. April..

1959. Her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an..

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

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

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

With her glossy blonde hair natural good looks and fashionable clothes Fiona Norwood the rector's ne..

At the famous Patisserie Clermont in Paris 1909 a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has giv..

In the small mining village of Meryen a dark secret lurks?Amy Lewarne finds her life changed forever..

Hilary Napier has had enough of secrets. The engagement party at the Barton is finally a chance for ..

As Christmas 1938 approaches the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the fes..

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

The streets in Leith are rife with news of the war raging in Europe and the Glass family is struggli..

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

In 1960s Scotland the farming industry is on the brink of huge changes becoming more mechanised and ..

Valentina's mother had always made it clear to her that her brother Michael was the favourite child...

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

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

1944 London. A young man is killed in an air raid leaving a wife two children and a secret. Ailsa Ma..

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

A new generation of the Maxwell family are farming at Wester Rullion during the 1980s. Young Paul Ma..

1840. Miranda Jarvis would do anything to protect her sister - so when Lucy comes down with a fever ..

On her deathbed Lucy Fallow?s mother makes her promise to look after her younger siblings and keep h..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

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

England is at war but nothing can ruin Esther Wynford's happiness at marrying Monty Grant. Their sho..

Freddie Barcussy knows hardship and pain. His parents Annie and Levi are struggling to make ends mee..

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

1949. Attractive and spirited Roz Rainey who lives in post-war Edinburgh with her widowed mother her..

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

In defending herself against her brutal husband 18-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She..

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

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

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

Headmaster Theodore Quinn has lived in Liverpool since coming over from America to fight for Britain..

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

It?s 1925 and Kate Cameron is just sixteen when she?s taken on at a shipyard on the Clyde. Kate?s wa..

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

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

Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find them..

It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland..

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

Amy Carter is just 14 when she leaves school to look after her sick mother. But she is left all alon..

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

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

A loving and hard-working child Emily goes into service when she is twelve at the house of Roger Fra..

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

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of hull. Her adored father travelled often to the..

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

Ruby and Grace have grown up in the poorest slums of Hull. Friends since early childhood they have s..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

Allan Jamieson is hailed as a hero of the Great War but inside he is so affected by his experience t..

An early marriage seemed to solve all of Ruth Gordon?s problems at once. But nothing prepared her fo..

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city?s Town Guard Robe..

In the years following the end of World War II life at the Glens of Lochandee is tough. Many familie..

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

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

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

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

When Daisy?s family lose their croft on the Connemara coast her Aunt Jane housekeeper to Dr and Mrs ..

Lily and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them leaving..

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