When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

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

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

Someone had once told Emma Molinero the daughter of an itinerant carnival performer that she was mad..

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

March 1941. After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz she decides to le..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron?Helen?finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly discove..

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall wrecking ships a..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

London 1910. Lily is ten years old when she realises her grandmother a washerwoman is seriously ill...

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

There were plenty around Fellburn who said Maggie Rowan was as plain as a pikestaff a woman consumed..

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

1942. Determined to do her bit for the war effort Yorkshire lass Evie Sinclair leaves her island hom..

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

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Poachers and dealmakers the Griffiths family have always managed to scrape by on the edge of the law..

In 1860?s Yorkshire a woman?s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentleman?s..

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

1952. With smog blanketing London little Grace is in trouble. Her grandmother is dangerously ill but..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

The Roman House is a sweeping saga which covers the lives of a family from 1898 until the 1970s. The..

Her name was Hannah Boyle but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew ..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

The eldest of three children Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the mate..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

When Daisy?s family lose their croft on the Connemara coast her Aunt Jane housekeeper to Dr and Mrs ..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

It?s 1957 and three young women are beginning their nursing training at the Florence Nightingale Hos..

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

Sep McGilby always said that Emily Kennedy had a happy face. And at 16 Emily had a lot to be glad ab..

When Polly Anna?s mother died when she was just three years old it seemed the workhouse was the only..

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

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover t..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Harry Blenheim wasn't what you might call a good-looking fellow but his face was full of character w..

When Maisie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island she causes ..

Wesley Curnow a young Cornish miner arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on ..

Janet and Hywel Griffiths dream of seeing their son Frank happily married but Mair the daughter of t..