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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manchester 1960. When you're young unmarried and pregnant in a shaming society that will never under..

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

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

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

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

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

Lincolnshire 1854. After much reflection Caroline Lawson has accepted Max Cavendish's marriage propo..

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