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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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