This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorJoanna Trollope
NarratorNadia May
Duration8h 49m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels
PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life ... CONTAINS ADULT THEMES
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Author Curtis Sittenfield
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Duration 13h 58m
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Author: Brandon Taylor
Author Brandon Taylor
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Summer At the Comfort Food Cafe
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Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Dawn Murphy
Duration 9h 50m
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Author: Joanna Trollope
Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Nadia May
Duration 8h 51m
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Author Abbi Waxman
Narrator Jessica Preddy
Duration 9h 28m
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Author: Joanna Trollope
Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 10h 6m
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Author Douglas Stuart
Narrator Angus King
Duration 17h 41m
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Author Dawn O'Porter
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Author: Joanna Trollope
Author Joanna Trollope
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Duration 12m
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