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

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

In the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girl..

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

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

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

1939. The threat of war is looming over Blackpool but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it..

Manchester December 1940. This winter the girls boarding at Star House - Betty Sally and Lorna - are..

London 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady..

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

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

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

After Pearl's home is destroyed in the Exeter Blitz so too are her dreams of performing onstage. Fin..

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

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