There would be trouble at Paradise . . . From birth Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised ..

Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has bee..

1937 Edinburgh. Attractive dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office..

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

Winter 1942. Brenda and Joyce are just two of the girls who have joined the Women's Land Army and ar..

It’s Christmas 1880 in London’s East End and a dying Irish girl leaves her baby in the care of t..

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her... When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar ..

It is 1918; the Kaiser’s empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips a prisoner of war in a..

1920s. When her father dies Ellie Douglas has little option but to go into service. Her position tak..

Liverpool 1917. When Irish seaman Michael Gallagher docks in Liverpool after years of fighting with ..

Helen Fox and her bon viveur husband Harry are the toast of the Bristol set in the years immediately..

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the a..

Liverpool 1958: Nursery nurse Irene Miller falls for her friend Peggy's handsome older brother Marty..

When her father dies Abigail Newman is forced to leave her mother and the vicarage she was raised in..

It's the late 1950s and change is in the air. For the Napier family up at the big house the old ways..

Sally Travis appeared to have been badly let down by Rhys Martin who had gone away to college when u..

1939. Eve Armstrong is being evacuated to Devon. As the train pulls out of London she takes a last l..

Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a comfortable ho..

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

In 1946 Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane having lost her house in Bootle an..

With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation proprietors Peggy and Abl..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..

It is 1935 and as Carrie Courtney watches her twin sister Connie marry the man of her dreams Carrie ..

1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend the previously f..

Edinburgh Yuletide 1743. Seconded back from the wars in Europe to captain the city’s Town Guard Ro..

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If ..

The day that Hilary and David have been waiting for has finally arrived and as the church bells ring..

Cock Shield Farm 1881. After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child ..

Following a scandalous affair wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to R..

1890 Western Australia. 14-year-old Sarette Maitland is orphaned when her father dies of a snake bit..

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

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..

March 1915. Caroline Lilley's fiancé Reggie is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and ..

December 1930. With the Depression biting deeper it looks like many children in the East End will wa..

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

Following a terrible storm seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck by local Cornishman Arn..

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of A Daughter's Christmas Wish. Christmas 1919...

17-year-old Alice Tozer comes as a maid to the Tozers' farm in Burracombe in the spring of 1918. She..

What possible connections might exist between an aged man who used to sell shoes some ladies of the ..

1915. Patrolling is the last thing on the minds of Women Police Service recruits Annie Maggie and Po..

The O'Neils who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End keep watch over the..

Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When th..

Claudia Muldoon and her sister Jenny live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen ..

In 1955 Scotland Road residents fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish th..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

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

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East but for those living at Beach View Boarding House th..

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

Lavender Road boasts a pawnbroker a pub two rows of terraced working class homes and at one end the ..

Christmas Eve 1909. When eleven-year-old Lily Larkin is left to fend for herself in an East London w..

A new generation of the Maxwell family are farming at Wester Rullion during the 1980s. Young Paul Ma..

On Easter day in 1918 Frances Kemp looked out at the little thatched village and promised that one d..

Britain is at war and Ruth a gifted pilot is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Over in..

Andrew Sanderson brilliant surgeon and renowned musician is still grieving the death of his wife Mar..

Summer 1953. Hilary Napier's life is turned upside-down when Marianne a beautiful French woman knock..

In 1871 young Daisy Fraser is living in the Yorkshire Dales with her beloved family. Her sister Kitt..

Rodney Prince a doctor who chose to work amongst the poor of Newcastle to the shame of his beautiful..

Now that her family is grown content in the knowledge that she loves them Lucy Henshaw decides she i..

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child content to play hopscotch with her friends. But after Em's moth..

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

1915. While World War One changes the country with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men bein..

Liverpool 1942. Though they may be posted miles apart Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronge..

While her mother is at home giving birth eleven-year-old Isa must look after her younger siblings bu..

West Yorkshire 1926. After completing her training in Steeple Street Agnes is looking forward to mak..

With her husband Nick away fighting Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning but finds herself ..

In the aftermath of war Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin Jan..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

When 18-year-old Eve runs away to start a new life in the city she quickly discovers that Leeds is n..

Manchester 1942. When Cordelia's daughter Emily falls for a young chap who doesn't meet the approval..

Leaving Liverpool behind Libby Gilbert embarks on a transformative journey to London with her newfou..

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

Liverpool 1936. Molly Penelope Hardwick has been abandoned in Haisborough Orphanage. Desperate to di..

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

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

Headmaster Theodore Quinn has lived in Liverpool since coming over from America to fight for Britain..

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer...

Austria 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienn..

Devon 1943. In the village of Burracombe 'Dig for Victory' is more than just a wartime slogan. While..

Cambridgeshire - 1941_x000D_As the war rages on in Europe it brings untold heartache to the Talbot f..

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful wild Northumbrian coast. But ..

Separated from each other soon after being taken from their mother Tilly by a travelling group of gy..

Ever since her mother died Martha Mary had had to take over the running of her home a sprawling mans..

Meg just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother's illness gets worse every day..

Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey. Separated fro..

September 1940_x000D__x000D_With harvest approaching land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she plo..

Nell Goodman is a good daughter. Her job in the local brewery is the only thing keeping her and her ..

An only child 15-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a c..