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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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