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

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

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

Three people all escaping harsh pasts come together in the Australian Bush. Irish Keara Michaels arr..

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

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

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

A body neatly wrapped in brown paper is found by the gardener Mr Turtle on his garden rubbish heap. ..

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

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

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

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

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

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