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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1944 the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Brit..