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

When Stella Swift is discovered holding a shard of broken glass near her newborn baby fears that she..

When her mother dies in childbirth Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt Annie Grafton. Anni..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

After the tragic death of her father aspiring singer Jessie Delaney has been forced to live with her..