Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

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

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

1943. Gloria is reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the N..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Yorkshire 1944. The end of the war feels close but Air Transport Auxiliary girls Bobbie Viv and Mary..

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

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

It wasn't a privileged childhood but it was a happy one. Sybil and Lizzie Cream brought up in a fish..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

It's 1959 and eighteen-year-old Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start..

Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

Meriel grows up in England a tomboy helping her beloved grandfather with DIY. At school she discover..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

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

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly she and her family - mother Diana sister Lucy - re..

Liverpool 1940. As the Luftwaffe turns its attention to Liverpool Shane Quinn decides to move his fa..