Wiltshire, December 1915. Widow Olivia Harbury has been persuaded by her cousin Donald to live with ..

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

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

Manchester 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching p..

London 1890. Queenie Bonner is only two years old and oblivious to the dirt and squalor of the slums..

Liverpool 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However behind closed doors she li..

Little Rose McGinley is just seven years old when her family is evicted from their Donegal home, vic..

When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket Ava..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

1940. As the bombs rain down on London a close-knit community struggles to survive. Working at the l..

At the close of the nineteenth century the Hamilton family is enjoying new-found security and modest..

Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface...

London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane surr..

Liverpool 1940. When war comes to Britain Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity t..

Liverpool 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when the Copperfields move in next door and she quickly b..