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

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

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

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

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

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

Carrie Anderson's business selling books at her local train station is thriving and with her beloved..

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

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

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

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for o..

Spring 1942. After a difficult few years with her husband Victor Prue's life is about to change in a..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

After falling pregnant unexpectedly 16-year-old Catrin is devastated when her neglectful father send..

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

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

Kent 1828. Lizzie Carey of Castle Bay is trapped in a life she never chose - endless days of cooking..

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

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

Victoria is astonished when she discovers an abandoned newborn baby on her doorstep along with a not..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In A Wartime Christmas at Rookery House former cook Hettie Brown hears some shocking news making her..

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

July 1942. Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman hu..

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

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

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

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

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

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

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

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

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

In the shadows of 1887 London one woman must fight for her future - and her child's. When Amelia Spe..

When Charity Browne arrives at The Fitzroy Hotel on her way to a country house party she knows there..

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

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

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

Harry Blenheim wasn't what you might call a good-looking fellow but his face was full of character w..

Nan Turpin is in trouble again accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family she turns t..

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prov..

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

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

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

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

London's East End 1940. A frightened young woman gives birth to a tiny baby. Clearly alone she refus..

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

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

1950. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister Eliza have the perfect lives wantin..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had ..

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

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

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

BLACKPOOL 1914. Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poo..

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 ..

England 1940s. Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane watching things happen ar..

Lancashire 1929. Holcombe Hall's enigmatic owner has passed away and as the roaring 20s come to an e..

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

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

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

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

North Atlantic Ocean 1942. Fifteen-year-old Connie is leaving war-torn England for the safer shores ..

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

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

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

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

London 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son he vis..

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

1945 Sunderland. Ida Boulter makes the heart-wrenching decision to leave her five children behind as..

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

Seven years ago Charlotte Russell's father walked out on her family. Ever since the task of caring f..

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

In 1860?s Yorkshire a woman?s fortune belongs to her husband - regardless of a so-called-gentleman?s..