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Yorkshire Blitz Book 3: A Daughter's Hope
Author: Donna Douglas
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Author Donna Douglas
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesYorkshire Blitz, Book 3
Duration 10h 25m
From Sunday Times best-Selling author Donna Douglas. Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet. As the residents of Jubilee Row begin to rebuild their lives, twins Sybil and Maudie Maguire decide to go off and do their bit by joining the WAAFs. But what starts off as a great adventure soon force...
View BookYorkshire Blitz Book 1: A Mother's Journey
Author: Donna Douglas
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Author Donna Douglas
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesYorkshire Blitz, Book 1
Duration 10h 5m
From the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Nightingale series. A dramatic and heartwarming new saga series from the well-loved Donna Douglas. Hull, 1940. Widowed Edie Copeland has just arrived on Exchange Street, heavily pregnant and with heavy suitcase in tow. She left York after tragedy struck to make a fresh start, but she's a...
View BookYorkshire Blitz Book 2: A Sister's Wish
Author: Donna Douglas
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Author Donna Douglas
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesYorkshire Blitz, Book 2
Duration 9h 38m
From Sunday Times best-selling author of The Nightingale Girls Donna Douglas. Spring, 1941. The families of Jubilee Row are still reeling from the loss of one of their own, and as the Blitz on Hull intensifies, it seems as if there will be more tragedies to come. As the street braces itself, Iris Fletcher returns home from th...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 12h 30m
Set in 17th-century France against a backdrop of terror and religious frenzy. Juliette seeks refuge in a remote abbey - and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Then her past turns up to haunt her in the guise of a man she has every reason to fear.
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 1h 30m
This collection of poems draws on many themes familiar to the listeners of Catherine Cookson's novels: love, work, class and the beauty of nature. She also shares more personal thoughts, reflections on her own writing, marriage to her beloved Tom and life in the north of England. From the earliest poem included here, written in 1925 aged nineteen,...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 14h 30m
Michael Gallagher is an Irish seaman, fighting with the Royal Navy. He comes ashore in Liverpool when his ship needs repairs and meets lovely young Stella Bennett on the quayside, searching for her lost kitten. The young couple fall in love and want to marry but the Bennetts have other plans for Stella and when she gives birth to a baby, Ginny, Mic...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 16h
One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. But Patty...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 4
Duration 10h 46m
Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing! - but this time he is determined not to be ruled by his big heart and hot head. Yet somehow, within just one day...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 15h
The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer's shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney's Department Store and young Evie starts at regular school. Then circums...
View BookAuthor: Valerie Wood
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Author Valerie Wood
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 11h 21m
Hull, 1874. Clara had always wondered about the beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, who was adopted as a baby and turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic looks point to her origins far away from the streets of Hull. Even at her twin sister Elizabeth's wedding, Clara knows that Jewel is the belle of the ball. And as Jewel looks on at the happy,...
View BookAuthor: Rita Bradshaw
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Author Rita Bradshaw
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 12h 30m
As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older brothers. Over the following years the Depression tightens its grip. Times are hard and Lucy's situation is made more difficult by the ominous presence of Tom Crawford, who lives next door, the eldest son of...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 12h
When lonely orphan Dot McCann decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's empty dustbin, she overhears a conversation which could send one man to prison and the other to the gallows - and finds herself in possession of stolen goods. Dot joins forces with Corky, who has run away from a London orphanage; Emma, whose jeweller's shop has been burgled; and Ni...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 14h 30m
Rose McAllister's husband, Steve, is a seaman, often drunk and violent. Rose does her best to cope and sees that her daughters, Daisy and Petal, suffer as little as possible. When war is declared the girls are evacuated, but unhappy, they run away, arriving home on the worst night of the May Blitz. When Rose arrives home she finds their house destr...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 15h
Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, Liverpool, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes whenever she can. She makes friends with Geoff Gardiner, another orphan, and is teaching him to swim in the Scaldy when Clem Gilligan rescues t...
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 4h 30m
A community learns to come to terms with a terrible event from its past. Emily Radley's Christmas plans are shattered when she learns that her aunt is dying. Although estranged from her, Emily decides that she must journey to Susannah's home in Ireland to assist her in her final days. When she reaches Connemara though, it is evident that Susannah h...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 3: One Special Village
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 3
Duration 10h 35m
Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter, Cathie, scrimping and saving to get by. But after she suffers a violent asthma attack, the doctors say she must move to the clean, fresh air of the countryside to have any hope of survival. When Harry chances upon a patch of land for sale in Ellindale and an advert for a disused...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 2: One Kind Man
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 2
Duration 11h 2m
Lancashire, 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, he spends a few years travelling to keep the sad memories at bay. Just as he's ready to settle down again, his great-uncle dies and leaves everything to him. This includes Heythorpe House in Ellindale, just down the road from Leah Willcox and her little fizzy drink factory. Finn...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 1: One Quiet Woman
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 1
Duration 11h 2m
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men and pawning the few belongings she has left will only keep their vicious rent collector at bay for a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, the...
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