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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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