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

Agnes Cavanah has watched her mother Kitty struggle to put food on the table ever since they crossed..

Georgina Corrigan is worried. The first women sent to her Percy Place home by the BOBs - an organisa..

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

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a hou..

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

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

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

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

When Cissie Brody was 15 fever swept the English countryside killing her parents and leaving her to ..

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

Susan Cahill enjoys her job at the BBC until a bomb destroys the building and brings a new boss Walt..

Is love just an illusion? To the outside Clare has everything: a beautiful home a devoted husband an..

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