East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..

When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action she brings up their young dau..

Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject po..

Leith 1953: The war is over a young queen has been crowned and eighteen-year-old Kirsten Mowat is gl..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

Manchester 1908. Attractive intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will..

1910. It's the morning of beautiful 18-year-old Lorne Malcolm's wedding to handsome Daniel MacNeil b..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

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

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