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

Ten-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights growing up in the noto..

London 1899. As she prepares for a glittering ball 20-year-old Gertrude Melrose considers her good f..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

Manchester 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching p..

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

Tragedy strikes a small Yorkshire mining town when Sarah Wild's husband dies in a terrible accident...

As the war continues to keep her family far away Peggy Reilly must continue to look after her girls ..

Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in th..

April 1942. New mother Alice Milwood is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Libertyâ..

Liverpool 1872. After spending time training at the Infirmary for Women in New York Maud Linklater c..

January 1941 As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter land girl Charlie Somit..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

Judith is suddenly all alone in the world. Her husband Jack has left her - why she doesn't really kn..

When the parish guardians send Lydia daughter of convict James Knowles to apprentice in the cotton m..