Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molly has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace.

When war comes, Trevor is...

Brenda O’Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlins, the rag-and-bone man, says she can come and live with him and he will give her child...

One last word of warning, my girl. Keep well away from that Hadyn Jenkins.' In spite of her father's words of warning, Sharon Pritchard decides to give up everything to follow her heart. However,...

Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert – but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although...

In the early 196s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills and with an adventurous spirit. At the first opportunity she set sail for Canada, to work in the remote stations...

Ever since she was eight years old, Katie Roberts has dreamed of getting away from the Cardiff slums where she lives. When she is only a girl, her handsome but wicked father, Lewis, is imprisoned...

Returning from the war, handsome Michael Quinn the cobbler is a changed man. Admired and liked by his customers, he is a tyrant at home, ruling his family with a rod of iron and a fist of steel....

Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends - a...

Joan Jonker set up the charity, Victims of Violence, in 1976 and over the years she has helped twelve thousand victims, raised two million pounds and opened the first shelters for victims in the...

When Molly’s father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Despite many difficulties, Molly is determined to make a better life for...

Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times of bad luck and despair. When...

The only child of over-protective parents, Sarah Lewis yearns to leave home. Studying hard to please them, she earns a place at Cardiff University. Here she is swept off her feet by handsome Gwyn...

After losing both her parents, sixteen-year-old Merrion Roberts is left to bring up her baby sister. Unable to cope alone, she teams up with Rhonda Rees, a trained milliner, who also has a young...

When her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a family again. But he is killed in an accident, and Patsy must keep the business going...

When Harriet Bean discovers, at the age of nine, that she has five aunts, she's astonished. How could her father have forgotten to mention them before? There's just one problem - she doesn't know...