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Author: Beryl Bainbridge
Format: MP3 CD
Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Paul Mcgann
Duration 4h 40m
Set in 1950, this audiobook chronicles the life of troubled Stella Bradshaw, an aspiring young actress making her first hesitant steps onto the professional stage. She rapidly becomes infatuated with Meridith, the company director, and, when he spurns her advances, she turns to O'Hara, another actor, in an effort to make him jealous.
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 5h 40m
Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Mark McGann
Duration 5h
Alan, a schoolboy living in a seaside village after the war, is concerned about the behaviour of his sister Madge. She has been seen talking to a German prisoner on the beach. Gradually her nightly disappearances affect the whole household. The parents become bitterly estranged, the wireless is turned up full volume so the neighbours won't hear the...
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Timothy West
Duration 4h 5m
Edward is throwing a dinner party with his mistress, aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted. Things seem to be going well but then some uninvited guests arrive and Edward is going to be late home... CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
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Format: MP3 CD
Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Jane Galloway
Duration 6h
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fi...
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