Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

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

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and h..

It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. Katie O?Neill?s childhood..

In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows they shar..

Birmingham and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of troubles . . . Rose ..

Growing up in Birmingham Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When t..

When Rachel Booker?s father dies deep in debt her mother must harden herself to make ends meet. Moth..

It is 1942 and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy li..

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful moth..

The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced ..