1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend the previously f..

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

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

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. T..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

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

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

When pretty Sara Pallister's father dies leaving his farm bankrupt she is begrudgingly taken in by h..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Sarah Foster?s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is in..

1879: Shipwrecked off the west coast of Australia Louisa Reynolds is aided by an aboriginal girl and..

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

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

From a chrysalis to a butterfly...When young paintress Megan Cresswell is left penniless in 1950 her..

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

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

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

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

When Molly Holden?s husband Thomas is convicted of being a Luddite on the word of a secret informer ..

When Polly Anna?s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the only..

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

For sale: One child six months old Lissie. The seller: Grace Beighton watched the baby's mother die...

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

Emmie Kelso is only nine years old when she is rescued from a dingy Gateshead tenement and sent to C..

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

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..

The Sweet family have run the local bakery for as long as anyone can remember. Twins Ruby and Mary S..

Independent-minded journalist Seffy Blake falls instantly in love with the mysterious Amyas Troy whe..

1915. Beth Healey hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate her 18th birth..

Rowan is devastated when her mother dies. And when her father marries a scheming woman who makes it ..

Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

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

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

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

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

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