Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..

Amy Logan?s family are poor but proud. They scrape a living by shrimping for the big Liverpool fish ..

1911 Bath. Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury works as a window dresser in Pennington's ..

When Pearl?s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - retu..

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

Rowntree's Factory York 1935. The aroma of chocolate was as familiar to Molly Freeman as the nose on..

October 1940. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Bancroft is working as a typist for a city newspaper but s..

When tragedy strikes Libby Gilbert is left homeless and destitute fending for herself on the capital..

Marjorie is the pretty one of the Preston sisters. So pretty that when a performer at her sister?s m..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau Lorcan ..

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died s..

With her dreams of dominating Melbourne's fashion scene in tatters Nella Martini returns to Torrente..

When World War II breaks out Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at her local train station in the h..

Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend shocked to hear she's going to marry a guy she's..

The final novel in the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson Family series by beloved saga author Ann..

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

Lancashire 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name and a brave step towards a happier life. Sudde..

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

Bram Deagan dreams of bringing his family to join him in Australia where he now runs a successful tr..

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..

Eighteen-year-old Connie Baxter works as an usherette at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport. Her..

Bram Deagan has a thriving trading business a beautiful wife and a growing family. Since he wishes t..

At the end of Hawthorn Close there is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees an..

1916 Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory newly pregnant Ellen is rushe..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

Elsie Barker is desperate for a new start after her husband leaves her. When her friend Izzy - who n..

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..

Tammy and her mother Grace are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an un..

Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother Bram in Australia. Ho..

1943 and The Bluebird Girls are at the top of their game. They are touring with ENSA visiting army b..

Glasgow 1943. After becoming pregnant out of wedlock only to find out her betrothed was already marr..

Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..

Manchester 1940. By day Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally now the manager of the sal..

Sarah is lonely. Living in a small Yorkshire village with just her grandmother for company she longs..

Bridget Kittrick headstrong and independent is ready to show her worth when she's left in charge of ..

East London 1916. The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby..

The hedonism of London in the roaring twenties is a world away from Annabel Tarleton's ordinary coun..

Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..

1890. Alice is the sole bread-winner for her family working at the local cotton mill. But when she s..

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..

Ismay and Mara are Irish orphans sent to Australia against their will by the authorities and separat..

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

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebra..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

Manchester 1940: the minute war was declared best friends Sally and Debs volunteered for the home gu..

When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven he does not understan..

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

Ellen Dawson is glad when the Great War ends but sad that Lady Bingram?s aides are to be disbanded. ..

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..

Tasmania 1929: Ten-year-old-twins Tom and Harry Abbott are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart ..

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland living comfortably at the grand Down..

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

As a small child Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother?s rejection. Abandoned and s..

The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now the war..

In the brooding north country hills a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each othe..

Rainey Bird Ivy Sparrow and Bea Herron all love to sing. For Rainey music has been a solace during t..

Singapore in the 1869s is exotic and yet terrifying for a penniless Englishwoman alone and vulnerabl..

After the market crash of 1929 the Bowmaker family in Leigh-on-Sea are struggling to make ends meet...

York 1852. When Caroline Lawson becomes a young widow her grief is deepened by the loss of her farm...

Can she escape her past and start again? Essex 1941_x000D_Unhappy with life at home with her privile..

Eleanor Saint loves helping in the community of her small mining town even though her snobbish grand..

In the Nightingale Hospital Matron?Helen?finds herself playing surrogate mother to her newly discove..

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

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..

Recently widowed Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daught..

On the day that her youngest child leaves home Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a mat..

Join the Marsh family again as they spend Christmas with Millie and Jeremy at Chateau Dumont. It's a..

June 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazin..

Summer 1916. Despite the misery of war in the air some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge rem..

When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of H..

When Fergus Deagan's wife dies leaving him to care for their small children he doesn't know how to m..

Holderness 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about t..

Anna and Will have been passing in and out of each other's lives since they were just kids._x000D_No..

Kay Duffield's fianc? is about to leave the country and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when ..

England 1943. With Christmas days away the land girls of Gosling Farm are full of merriment. Only Lo..

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..

As war finally draws to a close what will victory and peacetime bring for the south coast's Bluebird..

In 1871 young Daisy Fraser is living in the Yorkshire Dales with her beloved family. Her sister Kitt..

Missing home Rachel seizes the opportunity to train as a district nurse in a village near Rochdale e..