1937. Alice Edith and Marg face hardships every day growing up on one of the poorest streets in Blac..

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

Lancashire 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessie works long hours as a weaver in Blackburn helping to suppor..

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

Adam and Polly Fitch face a bleak future after being sold for just five shillings to Miss Reed's orp..

Dorset 1876. When young Beatrice Cullen shows up in the local church with her illegitimate child in ..

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

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea she is su..

Manchester 1941. When Cordelia’s daughter arrives home unexpectedly she can't wait to introduce he..

Mary Jenkins has every reason to be proud; from humble beginnings she has risen to become the overse..

When forest protests engulf a tiny Tasmanian timber town one family's century of secrets threatens t..

Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aun..

From the ashes of the war can love blossom? Rhian Gray left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life..

In the aftermath of the Second World War two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie ..

Manchester 1922. Nancy Pike is out of her depth. A pupil at the Miss Heskeths' school for surplus gi..