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Isabel Jackson / Lesley Mackie

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

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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

Norfolk 1944. Phylly is a Land Girl on Catchetts Farm. She and her friend Gracie are doing their bit..

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Lilian Harry / Anne Dover

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

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Lilian Harry / Janine Birkett

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

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Dee Yates / Lesley Mackie

After the Second World War Ellen and her daughter Netta make the journey from Germany back to Scotla..




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Tilly was first a rich man's mistress then a frontier wife and now a widow. With her two children ha..

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Fenella J Miller / Julia Franklin

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

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

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

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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

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

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Dee Williams / Annie Aldington

1950. After her marriage went badly wrong Dolly Taylor returned to Rotherhithe from America. She is ..




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family owners of a glassworks in the North-East o..

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AnneMarie Brear / Caroline Lennon

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

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Sylvia Broady / Catherine Harvey

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in ..

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Gracie Hart / Colleen Prendergast

After two years Meg Fairfax has finally started to make a success of herself. Her skills as a baker ..

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Lyn Andrews / Julie Maisey

It is 1919 and Liverpool has been devastated by World War I. Sons husbands and fathers have been los..




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Rosie Archer / Tamsin Kennard

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop with two boys ..

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Elizabeth Murphy / Julie Maisey

Cathy is glad to have her husband back now the Great War is over. Struggling to keep the peace Cathy..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

December 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolu..

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Glenda Young / Janine Birkett

A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that 17-year-old Ruby Dinsdale has known. Even wit..




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Anne Baker / Anne Dover

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

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Emma Hornby / Julia Franklin

Manchester 1867. Mara longs for a peaceful life free of violence and poverty. But she has married in..

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Iris Gower / Claire Morgan

The Llewelyn family's livelihood largely depends on the ferry run by Siona Llewelyn the kindly yet r..

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Poppy Cooper / Jess Nesling

1915. Beth Healey hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate her 18th birth..

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Lilian Harry / Anne Dover

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




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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

October 1940. When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Bli..

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AnneMarie Brear / Anne Dover

West Yorkshire 1914. Newly married to Noah Jackson Beth is happily content working on her family's m..

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Rosie Clarke / Polly Edsell

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

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Kate Eastham / Polly Edsell

1914. Evie Munro is a Scottish fisher girl working the herring season from Wick to Great Yarmouth. F..

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Rosie Archer / Tamsin Kennard

1943. After the heartache of the previous year Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl c..




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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

In Western Australia Sarah chuckles as she describes her final will and testament - which will throw..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

1938. Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled but deep down she is ..

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Lesley Eames / Polly Edsell

Alice moves to the village of Churchwood with her retired father just as WWII breaks out. She is des..

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Elsie Mason / Joan Walker

Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks' life. Marrying handsome Sam th..

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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

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




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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. She is his wife..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

The Broadhursts were a mining family and to outsiders they appeared to be happy loyal and united. Bu..

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Millie Gray / Lesley Mackie

1939: The unexpected death of Sandra Anderson dramatically and ruthlessly changes forever the lives ..

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Rosie Hendry / Patience Tomlinson

1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-yea..

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Iris Gower / Claire Morgan

When her grandmother dies Catherine Llewellyn finds herself alone in the world. Her inheritance is a..




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Lindsey Hutchinson / Charlie Sanderson

Adam and Polly Fitch face a bleak future after being sold for just five shillings to Miss Reed's orp..

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Lilly Adam / Julia Franklin

Living in Victorian Oxfordshire Poppy Woods has suffered neglect and cruelty from her very first bre..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Fenella J Miller / Julia Franklin

May 1940.There are new residents at Goodwill House - WAAF drivers Camilla 'Millie' Cunningham and Di..

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Maisie Thomas / Julia Franklin

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




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Nancy Revell / Janine Birkett

January 1945. Spring is in the air. And so is victory. . .Wedding bells are ringing at long last for..

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Poppy Cooper / Jess Nesling

1915. After the recent dramatic events at the Post Office's Home Depot Milly Woods is looking forwar..

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Catherine Cookson / Colleen Prendergast

When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret a lonely old house on the ..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charli..

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Fenella J. Miller / Helen Keeley

White Waltham 1943. As Italy surrenders and victory looms on the horizon Ellie's doing what she does..




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Jennie Felton / Emma Powell

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

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Anna Jacobs / Anne Dover

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

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..

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Catherine Cookson / Chess Tomlinson

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here d..

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Jenny Holmes / Claire Storey

Blackpool summer 1942._x000D_Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing thro..




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Rachel Brimble / Penelope Freeman

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a hou..

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Nancy Revell / Janine Birkett

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

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Iris Gower / Claire Morgan

Mary Jenkins has every reason to be proud; from humble beginnings she has risen to become the overse..

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

Lancashire 1936. With her son Gabriel finally married and her youngest following his dreams of becom..

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Gwen Kirkwood / Lesley Mackie

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily..




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Rosie Clarke / Laura Kirman

1939. When the man Georgie has always loved is sent to France on a secret mission every knock of the..

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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

An unexpected inheritance is most people's dream but not so for Paula. She's happy and secure in Wes..

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June Francis / Julie Maisey

Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father ..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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Anna Jacobs / Julia Franklin

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




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Gracie Hart / Colleen Prendergast

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

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Katie Flynn; Judith Saxton / Anne Dover

Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father the only ripple in Tess Delamere'..

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Francesca Capaldi / Deryn Edwards

Spring 1919. WW1 might be over but the inhabitants of Dorcalon in the Welsh Valleys still feel the p..

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Pam Evans / Annie Aldington

The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at fir..

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Anna Jacobs / Taryn Ryan

When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a ch..




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Rosie Clarke / Claire Morgan

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

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Rosie Meddon / Emma Powell

Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and he..

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Elvi Rhodes / Anne Dover

Ever since the death of her beloved husband Peter Caroline's life in Bath has not been the same. Fri..

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Catherine Cookson / Anne Dover

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

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AnneMarie Brear / Charlotte Strevens

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland...




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Jenny Holmes / Penelope Freeman

Spring 1942. Lizzie is making plans for her wedding with fiance Bill. But preparations during wartim..

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Sheila Riley / Julie Maisey

Liverpool 1953.January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth's Coronation year as the mothers of Reck..

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Val Wood / Anne Dover

Hull 1856. James Ripley and his wife Moira have always looked out for the poor of Hull. When during ..

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Rosie Clarke / Emma Swan

As a small child Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother’s rejection. Abandoned and..

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Catherine Cookson / Simon Mattacks

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born his mother had ..




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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

Welcome to the district nurses’ home on Steeple Street where everyone has a secret…Ambitious you..

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Anna Jacobs / Catherine Harvey

Lancashire 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies it seems that Elinor Pendleton finall..

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Donna Douglas / Penelope Freeman

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

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Elaine Roberts / Julie Maisey

1914. Growing up on a farm in the country Annie Cradwell has always dreamt of singing on stage. So w..

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Maisie Thomas / Julia Franklin

Manchester 1942. A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison's romance with Dr Maitland..




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Katie Flynn / Anne Dover

Liverpool 1941. After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool she is m..

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Glenda Young / Janine Birkett

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