As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children the..

Nurse Marie Larsen has grown used to the challenges of keeping Hull Royal Infirmary running during t..

There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

After the death of their parents Faith and her brother James are raised by an aunt. While James goes..

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten with an incompetent mother and a drunken father ..

Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter Annabel shall marry into th..

Sarah Foster’s parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty. When her father Will is ..

March 1940. Mabel is determined to make a fresh start as a railway girl where no one will know the t..

At twenty-one Lily Knowles is desperate to leave home so she escapes to London to train as a nurse. ..

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

Fearless Felicity Penrose thrives on adventure: she's one of the most experienced female sailors in ..

For Amelia and her siblings the grim past which their mother Emily had endured seemed very far away...

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

Molly helps run the general store with the help of her retired father Bill Keen. But after the build..

When Tamsin Hardy returns home from her post as a lady’s maid to attend her mother’s sickbed her..