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

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

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

York 1940. World War Two has arrived for the girls of the Rowntree's factory and with rationing crip..

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

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

May 1910. The village of Oystertown is home to those who make their living from the sea. Yet social ..

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

Seventeen-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English fathe..

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

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

As the Great War rages Jack's toffee factory in the market town of Chester-le-Street Durham is threa..

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

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

London 1941. The war has robbed eight-year-old orphan Elsie of everything except her older brother J..

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

Naomi is upset to find a nasty anonymous letter land on her doorstep. Who could've sent something li..

Livia Blake has lost her husband and faces a crossroads. Her friend suggests she would make an excel..

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

Manchester 1944. Alison is thriving in her rewarding role at the railways. But when family tragedy s..

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

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

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

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

Life on the river has never been easy for Tilly and Sam but they've built a home filled with love. J..

When Olive receives a letter in the post from the father of her daughter - American soldier Joe - sh..

The year of 1947 is almost upon them and the community of Cliffehaven is still reeling from the trag..

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

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

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

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

When Sheena is forced to move back to Kiltie Street she is unsure how she will start all over again...

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns a..

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

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

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife a son friends but he was isolated from all the people ..

London October 1940. Dot is finding her independence and takes a full-time role as an ARP warden. As..

1876. Life is happy for ten-year-old Rebecca Wheeler in the small fishing village of Leonard's Bay. ..

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

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

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried m..

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

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

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

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

1939. When war sends five displaced children to her door Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be t..

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

Young widow Julia Nance has found happiness again running her beloved guesthouse Fairlight but with ..

It's late summer 1940 and Isla Donahue's idyllic lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father se..

England 1941. Dedicated local vet Laura cares for the farm animals of the little village of Bramble ..

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

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

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

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

To outsiders Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for ..

Manchester 1941. Kept apart by war work bombs and blackouts Lorna and her beloved George cherish eve..

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectati..

Northumberland 1909. When Shona Hardy's husband is lost at sea she finds herself alone in a village ..

Liverpool 1848. Meg Shaw is the middle child of eight siblings not old enough to bring in a wage to ..

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

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