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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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