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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow w..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Glasgow WW2. Despite being shy and reserved Jeannie finds herself newly engaged to Arthur the day wa..