AuthorAnna Jacobs
NarratorJulia Franklin
SeriesBirch End, Book 2
Duration11h
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Family Sagas
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man wants it too. Will she be able to buy her dream home? Life has changed drastically for local handyman Wilf Pollard as well. When tragedy strikes, Wilf is left as the only support of his two young children. But his friends rally round to help so that he can pull his life together and take up an exciting new job with a well-respected builder. Some of the local council are eager to deal with the squalid conditions of the Backshaw Moss slum, but others will stop at nothing to keep their profitable rents. And Stella's dream cottage is threatened by their plans to build yet more cheap housing. Can Stella, Wilf and the residents of Birch End pull together to make sure good triumphs over evil?
The Belfast Girl On Galway Bay
Author: Anne Doughty
Author Anne Doughty
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 8h 40m
When Elizabeth Stewart, the only daughter of Protestant parents, announced that she wants to leave Belfast for the west coast of Ireland, her family can't help but question her judgement. What could she possibly find in leafy Lisara that isn't available in the city? A stranger in the village, Lizzie's presence draws the attention of all the locals....
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Author: Rosie Clarke
Author Rosie Clarke
Narrator Helena Coates
Duration 9h 27m
All she has is her reputation ... When Emma Robinson discovers she is carrying Paul Greenslade's child, there are harsh consequences after he disappears rather than marry a common shop-girl. Forced by her tyrannical father to marry Richard Gillows, Emma learns quickly that a jealous husband is a violent one. How can Emma escape the ties that bind h...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 13h 26m
Gracie Burton is a grandmother living quietly in Devon. She has rarely left the village over the past 40 years. Her daughter, Carina, is immensely high-powered, with her own fast-paced business in London. She has very little time for her 17-year-old daughter, Anastasia, away at boarding school, and even less time for her ageing mother. In many ways...
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Jubilee Series Book 3: Diamond Promises
Author: Anna Jacobs
Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Catherine Harvey
SeriesJubilee Series, Book 3
Duration 10h 3m
The third book in the gripping and heartwarming new Jubilee Lake series, from multi-million-copy bestselling author Anna Jacobs Lancashire, 1895. Lancashire, 1895. Abigail Dawson has lived in fear of her father for thirty years. But when, after uprooting them to a grand new home in Ollerthwaite, he's found murdered in the street, her life is turned...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h
As a young widow left badly off, and with three children to bring up, Fiona Nelson had come to know all the problems of trying to make ends meet. So despite the inevtably disapproving comments of her own mother, she advertised for a lodger to help pay for some of the bills. The result was Bill, somewhat rough around the edges perhaps, but nobody's...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 11h 15m
Catherine Cookson was the original and bestselling saga writer, selling over 100 million copies of her novels. Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish e...
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Ellindale Saga Book 1: One Quiet Woman
Author: Anna Jacobs
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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Emma Series Book 3: Emma's Duty
Author: Rosie Clarke
Author Rosie Clarke
Narrator Helena Coates
SeriesEmma, Book 3
Duration 9h 26m
Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband's return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover-for while he still loves her, he is now a married man...The final instalment in Rosie Clarke...
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Ellindale Saga Book 2: One Kind Man
Author: Anna Jacobs
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...
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Birch End Book 1: A Daughter's Journey
Author: Anna Jacobs
Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Julia Franklin
SeriesBirch End, Book 1
Duration 10h 25m
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in village life than she could ever have imagined - and suddenly in danger, too. Jo also finds herself drawn to Nick, a handsome newcomer to the village....
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