Against the odds miner's daughter Theda Wearmouth succeeds in gaining a nursing place at Newcastle H..

Lorinda is only a child when tragedy deprives her of her true family and sent to live with her aunt ..

After the birth of their son Eliza naively hopes her husband Jack will put his gambling habit behind..

Lottie is just three years old when her Mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. A childhood spe..

Orphaned from birth Mary Trent has always dreamed of the day she can escape from poverty and when sh..

Life is a long tough struggle for Meg Maddison... Growing up caring for her brothers after the death..

Happiness always comes at a cost... Having grown up in a convent after the death of her mother Lizzi..

Cissy Farmer longs to escape her life in London's Docklands where times are hard and money is tight...

Growing up in poverty one of six siblings Hannah Armstrong never thought she'd know anything other t..

It's wedding season on Nantucket. The beautiful island is overrun with summer people - an annual sou..

Five women best friends for decades meet once a month to talk about books...and life love and the ja..

The Daintree breeds survivors - those who can weather the storms heat and floods that come hand in h..

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

Margery Blandon was always a principled woman who found guidance from the wisdom of desktop calendar..

At seventy-four cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age and her isolation and thinks the best of l..