Manchester 1922. Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage pe..

Manchester 1908. Attractive intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will..

Ever since the death of her husband Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage high up on th..

In Slough House memories are stirring all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again Loui..

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell as written by her daughter Norah. It te..

Hull 1930. A terrified woman runs through the dark rain-lashed streets pursued by a man desperate to..

Meet the Skelfs: well-known Edinburgh family proprietors of a long-established funeral-home business..

Rosalind and her husband Paul move from Australia to England due to his job with a multinational com..

They were best friends who never meant to fall in love - but for one of them it was already too late..

Mataura is a small town in rural New Zealand where apart from the odd tractor theft nothing very int..

1867: Nicola Douglas attends a lecture given by Miss Maria Rye the founder of the Female Middle Clas..

Diana Davies has been head of the family business since the death of her husband an infamous bank ro..

In 1920's inner city Dublin Tenements Ivy Rose Murphy struggles to survive in the harsh poverty-stri..

In 1898 three young girls leave a Dublin orphanage to enter a life of domestic service. They are pla..

The story opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their ..