Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve her father comes home drunk and commits an un..

Barbara Roberts pretty mischievous and 17 has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family..

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

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

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Miche..

Hull 1852. Matty has been the mother to her three younger sisters since their mother’s death ten y..

1914. While their men fight in France at home in Britain women are finally seizing the opportunity t..

Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow Hill workhouse. She now..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..

When Alice Verinder’s beloved sister Lydia goes missing Alice boards the Orient Express bound for ..

Liverpool 1939. Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent stepfather in the midd..

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

Eliza Wild has come a long way from her hungry childhood days in a rented miner's cottage on Pit Lan..

Margate 1884. When 17-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home she never dreamed she'd find her ..