Sunderland 1942. With the war showing no sign of abating Helen is thriving in her role as shipyard m..

Sally who married young to escape her appalling childhood is often left to bitterly reflect on the h..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill w..

1936. Polly's guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the c..

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

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow Hill workhouse. She now..

Dolly Perkins and Jack Larkin have grown up in the notorious gin palaces of Birmingham. It’s a wor..

When young British agent John Kirby is sent to Russia in 1911 he does not expect to fall in love. T..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..

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