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..
Kay Duffield's fianc? is about to leave the country and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when ..
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935 Frankie Redfern is unusual. But she's content..
1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death Stella comes into some money unexpecte..
Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed o..
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it..
Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black..
When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..
Ireland 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To..
Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..
Australia 1853. Settled in the colony Ellen is determined to make a happy new life for her family an..
1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..