Life has always been tough for May and Gus Lavender. Their father went away to sea never to return a..

1940 London. The Ten Bells Street girls best friends from childhood now find themselves surviving th..

October 1941. Marianne Fordham has a lot to cope with. As well as taking care of her young daughter ..

1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank in Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying f..

After the death of their parents sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whi..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

November 1942. Even during wartime the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas..

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

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

After the sudden and brutal breakdown of her marriage Jenny finds herself alone for the first time i..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to li..

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

1853. In the serene countryside of rural Yorkshire Caroline and Trixie's unbreakable bond forged ami..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..