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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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