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The Travels of Maudie Tipstaff

AuthorMargaret Forster

NarratorJacqueline King

Duration7h 36m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels

PublisherOakhill Publications

VersionUnabridged

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Plagued all her life by her boisterous husband, strait-laced, outspoken, domineering Maudie Tipstafff is now on her own. Invited by her two daughters and her son to spend four months with each of them, she leaves Glasgow for the very first time, uncertain of what awaits her. But what she finds in the very different homes of her children is not what she finds in the very different homes of her children is not what she expects, causing her to reassess her own life.

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