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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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