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Author: Margaret Forster
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Marie Collet
Duration 15h 32m
Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child.Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking. She grows up in comfort and security in Scotland, the only child of doting parents. But there are, as she discovers,...
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 15h 27m
On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s, her story moves on to a social worker and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of...
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 10h 45m
Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel had begun.
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Author: Margaret Forster
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Jacqueline King
Duration 7h 36m
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...
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Sian Thomas
Duration 8h 30m
When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore - expensive, inconvenient - but Julia was thrilled. When the time came, even the fact that her bridesmaid's dress didn't fit, and was plain cream rather than the pink she'd hoped for, couldn't ruin the day. But after this, t...
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Sara Masters
Duration 10h
Catherine's mother died when she was six months old, and Catherine grew up to love her father and stepmother. Upon their deaths she discovers a hat box left to her by her natural mother, the contents of which send her on a voyage of self-discovery.
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 7h 23m
Don and Louise's 18-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident. While Louise takes steps to move on with her life, Don cannot come to terms with the chain of events that led to the death. Instead, he is determined to bring someone to account.
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 10h 40m
A teenage boy is attacked and abused by two others in a moment of gratuitous violence. One of the attackers, a 15-year-old brought up by his respectable working-class grandmother, is tried and found guilty - but refuses to explain or to incriminate his partner. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
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