Diana Osbourne has everything a 1950s housewife could want - a beautiful house in Chelsea, a seemingly happy marriage to an... More > MP and two teenage daughters. Her life is thrown into turmoil when Charles, her husband, is arrested after being caught with rent boys. Diana’s perfect world suddenly is blown apart when she finds herself shunned by her social circle and driven out of her home by the press.

Exiled to the home of one of her only remaining friends, she becomes close to George McNamara, a builder who is working on the house. Diana has to face up to a world that is changing around her and finds herself longing to have some fun for the first time in her life.

Her happiness is short lived however when she is given an ultimatum - return to Charles and her stifling former existence or risk losing Daphne, her beloved oldest daughter. < Less

Farrah O’Rourke has spent her adult life breaking the law, opening an illegal rave club and marrying a gangster - she... More > likes nothing more than living on the edge. Recently widowed she is struggling to get on with life when a bombshell is dropped upon her – she’s the twin sister of Antonia Smedley, the Mayor of London’s wife and one of the most loved women in the world.

Former supermodel Toni - fashion icon and patron of many causes is catapulted to fame when her husband Jonathan becomes Mayor of London. Adored for her beauty and compassion no one knows her apparently perfect marriage is a sham. At just 38 she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has one final request – to be reunited with the twin she was separated from as a baby.

How did these two identical women end up living such different lives?

As Farrah struggles with her sister’s legacy, bringing up a family alone and avenging the death of her beloved husband, a face from the past returns to rock her already tumultuous world. < Less

Elizabeth Maine 1950s starlet, 70s sex symbol and 80s US soap queen has been lured out of retirement to star in Eastwood... More > Avenue, a British soap opera. What her fans don’t know is that Elizabeth’s upper class image is a lie; she is really Lizzie Gallagher; a single mother at 15 who was forced to have her baby adopted and was disowned by her family.

When her son Christopher, cheats on his fiance, she asks Elaine, her journalist mother to write an expose on Lizzie. When the two women meet they reach an understanding but Lizzie feels the time has come for her to confess all. She asks Elaine to write her biography and this means revisiting a painful past littered with addictions, infidelities and mental illness.

Lizzie isn’t afraid to tell all about her many lovers, battles with alcoholism and the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. What frightens her most is telling Christopher the truth about the baby girl she gave away fifty years ago and the lasting impact she has had on both their lives. < Less

Farrah O’Rourke has spent her adult life breaking the law, opening an illegal rave club and marrying a gangster - she... More > likes nothing more than living on the edge. Recently widowed she is struggling to get on with life when a bombshell is dropped upon her – she’s the twin sister of Antonia Smedley, the Mayor of London’s wife and one of the most loved women in the world.

Former supermodel Toni - fashion icon and patron of many causes is catapulted to fame when her husband Jonathan becomes Mayor of London. Adored for her beauty and compassion no one knows her apparently perfect marriage is a sham. At just 38 she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has one final request – to be reunited with the twin she was separated from as a baby.

How did these two identical women end up living such different lives?

As Farrah struggles with her sister’s legacy, bringing up a family alone and avenging the death of her beloved husband, a face from the past returns to rock her already tumultuous world. < Less

A tale of forbidden love and a quest for revenge against a backdrop of social change.

When London teenager Lou O’Connell... More > comes to the Sussex village of Summerset after World War II, her life changes forever. As the daughter of the local publican, she becomes the belle of the village, pursued by most of the local young men. Her heart, however, belongs to Andrew McDonald, the husband of Briggy Sheridan, daughter of the much hated brewing family who not only own the pub, but most of the village.

Lou and Andrew’s passion spans decades, kept secret from everyone around them. Lou becomes a successful writer and rich in her own right, but when she makes a shocking discovery about her own heritage, she becomes hell-bent on seeking revenge and claiming what is rightfully hers. < Less

Elizabeth Maine 1950s starlet, 70s sex symbol and 80s US soap queen has been lured out of retirement to star in Eastwood... More > Avenue, a British soap opera. What her fans don’t know is that Elizabeth’s upper class image is a lie; she is really Lizzie Gallagher; a single mother at 15 who was forced to have her baby adopted and was disowned by her family.

When her son Christopher, cheats on his fiance, she asks Elaine, her journalist mother to write an expose on Lizzie. When the two women meet they reach an understanding but Lizzie feels the time has come for her to confess all. She asks Elaine to write her biography and this means revisiting a painful past littered with addictions, infidelities and mental illness.

Lizzie isn’t afraid to tell all about her many lovers, battles with alcoholism and the sexual abuse she suffered as a child. What frightens her most is telling Christopher the truth about the baby girl she gave away fifty years ago and the lasting impact she has had on both their lives. < Less

World famous novelist Patty Belleville has gone missing. Her books about Jezebel Cole, the high-class prostitute have made... More > her a household name, but when she releases Two Hearts, a romantic novel that flops, she decides to disappear. Her three daughters, Sasha, Rorie and Dana all have their own theories as to what has caused their mother to run away, but when a face from Patty’s past returns, he reveals to Sasha that her mother ran away once before, shortly after writing the original version of Two Hearts. Convinced this is more than a publicity stunt, Sasha hires a private investigator to find Patty and along the way uncovers some horrifying secrets about her mother’s childhood that may just provide the key to why she has gone missing now. < Less

House of Valentine is one of the world’s biggest cosmetics companies, but the recession is biting and sales are falling.... More > The company’s formidable boss, Violent Spencer is determined to turn House of Valentine’s fortunes around before she retires, and so launches a new brand that takes the company back to grass roots. She looks back over a life that includes rape, a sham marriage, tragic loss and the painful secret she has kept from her eldest daughter. Will Violet succeed in improving her beloved company’s fortunes, or will this magnificent woman be forced to give up all she has worked for? < Less

Diana Osbourne has everything a 1950s housewife could want - a beautiful house in Chelsea, a seemingly happy marriage to an... More > MP and two teenage daughters. Her life is thrown into turmoil when Charles, her husband, is arrested after being caught with rent boys. Diana’s perfect world suddenly is blown apart when she finds herself shunned by her social circle and driven out of her home by the press.

Exiled to the home of one of her only remaining friends, she becomes close to George McNamara, a builder who is working on the house. Diana has to face up to a world that is changing around her and finds herself longing to have some fun for the first time in her life.

Her happiness is short lived however when she is given an ultimatum - return to Charles and her stifling former existence or risk losing Daphne, her beloved oldest daughter. < Less

House of Valentine is one of the world's biggest cosmetics companies, but the recession is biting and sales are falling. The... More > company's formidable boss, Violent Spencer is determined to turn House of Valentine's fortunes around before she retires, and so launches a new brand that takes the company back to grass roots. She looks back over a life that includes rape, a sham marriage, tragic loss and the painful secret she has kept from her eldest daughter. Will Violet succeed in improving her beloved company's fortunes, or will this magnificent woman be forced to give up all she has worked for? < Less