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Author: Catrin Collier
Format: MP3 CD
Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 15h 18m
In Pontypridd and the Rhondda in 1905 coal is king, and the families who sunk the first collieries are rich. None is wealthier or more generous than Harry Watkin Jones. Sali Watkin Jones is about to marry her childhood sweetheart, Mansel, a successful businessman. But four traumatic years later, Sali is a penniless outcast struggling to support her...
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 12h 25m
Destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once cherished herself; dreams cruelly snatched from her by the war. But 1960s Pontypridd is a place of opportunity and Magda'...
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Anne Cater
SeriesSwansea Girls, Book 2
Duration 17h
In the Swansea of the fifties, there is only one thing for a boy to do when he gets a girl 'into trouble' and that is to marry her - and quickly. Blighted by an unhappy childhood, passionately in love for the first time in his life, Jack can't wait to do 'the right thing'. A happy family of his own is all he ever wanted but not even in his wildest...
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Anne Cater
SeriesSwansea Girls, Book 1
Duration 16h
The Pier Ballroom in Swansea on a Saturday night is the place to be for Lily, an evacuee unclaimed by her family at the end of the war; for Judy, taught independence by her war widow mother; for Katie, the product of a marriage between a drunken, violent father and a cowed, beaten mother; and for spoiled, wilful Helen. It is an evening that fuels j...
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 12h 48m
Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 - Charlotte von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and to announce her engagement to a Prussian Count. Meanwhile, Hitler is ready to plunge the world into war, one that will wipe East Prussia from the face of the map. Charlotte is forced to leave her beloved homeland. By 1946,...
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