Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

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

Deep in the wild fen country Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered poverty-stricken existence with her ..

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

Despite air raids and rationing in wartime London sisters Liz and Dora Beck find time for fun and la..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..

From the age of eight Charity Crosse has been living with her grandfather and begging on the streets..

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

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

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

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

Edward Jenkins dreams of opening a sports shop in the Welsh town of Pendragon Island. Then his ambit..

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