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Author: Glenda Young
Format: Online
Author Glenda Young
Narrator Janine Birkett
Duration 10h 33m
Following a scandalous affair, wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to Ryhope, where she will live with her widowed aunt, Bessie Brogan, and help run her pub. Bessie is kind but firm, and at first, Emma rebels against her lack of freedom. Struggling to fit in, she turns to the wrong person for comfort, and becomes pregn...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Archer
Format: Online
Author Rosie Archer
Narrator Tamsin Kennard
SeriesThe Timber Girls, Book 2
Duration 8h 24m
The next heartwarming instalment of the Timber Girls Series. Perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Pam Howes. Trixie and her fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the MacKay estate. When they arrive, they are shocked to find the place dilapidated and neglected and the taciturn and secretive Noah MacKay not at all happy to be...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Archer
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Author Rosie Archer
Narrator Tamsin Kennard
SeriesThe Timber Girls, Book 3
Duration 7h 13m
1944, the darkest days of the war. Trixie and Vi are back in Gosport and doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Felling trees is backbreaking, but at least they know they're doing vital work. Trixie has a new boyfriend, Eddie. He's charming, handsome, and always flush with cash - a real Gosport catch, though Vi isn't so sure. Something about...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Archer
Format: Online
Author Rosie Archer
Narrator Tamsin Kennard
SeriesThe Timber Girls, Book 1
Duration 9h 4m
1942 - Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub a couple of nights a week isn't fulfilling nineteen-year-old Trixie Smith's idea of helping Britain win the war. One day she sees a poster advertising the Women's Timber Corps and decides to sign up—soon she is on her way to Scotland for four weeks of training to become a Lum...
View BookAuthor: Glenda Young
Format: Online
Author Glenda Young
Narrator Janine Birkett
Duration 10h
After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a roof over their heads, the young orphans are unloved, unwanted, and always hungry, with only one pair of boots between them. Keen to make money, Nellie hatches a plan to sell the girls to the mysterious Mr Scurrfield. But when the da...
View BookAuthor: Gill Thompson
Format: Online
Author Gill Thompson
Narrator Sarah Barron
Duration 10h 21m
A gripping, moving story of loss, friendship, the need to belong, inspired by real events, of two orphaned girls and the woman who becomes a surrogate mother to them, only to be separated in the most heart-wrenching way. Two orphaned girls become found family amidst the horrors of WWII in a gripping and heart-wrenching tale of friendship, loss and...
View BookAuthor: Glenda Young
Format: Online
Author Glenda Young
Narrator Janine Birkett
Duration 11h 42m
'Any rag and bone!' Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as she plies her trade along the back streets of Ryhope. She learnt the ropes from her dad when he returned from the war. But when tragedy struck, Meg had no choice but to continue alone, with only her trusty dog, Spot, and beloved horse, Stella, for company. Now the meagre money she...
View BookAuthor: Glenda Young
Format: Online
Author Glenda Young
Narrator Janine Birkett
Duration 9h 56m
Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long hours at Grange Paper Works with her younger sister, Bea, and spends her free time caring for their ailing parents. Their meagre income barely covers their needs, so when Bea reveals that she is pregnant out of wedlock, Ruth knows even tougher times are ahead. Ruth's hard work at the mill does not go unnotic...
View BookAuthor: Kay Brellend
Format: Online
Author Kay Brellend
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 9h 32m
1916. East London. When sixteen-year-old Clover Cooper's mother, Iris, calls her home from work one day, the last thing Clover expects is to find that her mother has given birth to another baby. After all, Clover's unpleasant father, Sidney, has been in France for longer than nine months. Banned from questions, and bound to secrecy by her beloved m...
View BookAuthor: Tania Crosse
Format: Online
Author Tania Crosse
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 11h 31m
1941. Bombs are falling all over Plymouth. Young Maisie O'Sullivan must make a choice that will change her life for ever. Maisie yearns for a family of her own. Raised as a charity orphan in a Catholic convent in Ireland, she believed she was all alone in the world. But when she is twelve, her world is turned upside down by a shocking revelation. S...
View BookTremarnock Book 2: The Cornish Guest House
Author: Emma Burstall
Format: Online
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesTremarnock, Book 2
Duration 12h 49m
Liz has found refuge in the small fishing village of Tremarnock with her young daughter, Rosie, after her relationship with Rosie's father came unstuck. Now happily married to village restaurant owner, Robert Hart, all seems set for a quiet autumn and merry Christmas. But strangers have bought the local guest house and seem to have big plans. Why i...
View BookTremarnock Book 4: A Cornish Secret
Author: Emma Burstall
Format: Online
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesTremarnock, Book 4
Duration 11h 35m
Esme Posorsky is an enigma. For as long as people can remember, she has been part of community life in the quaint Cornish fishing village of Tremarnock, but does anyone really know her? She is usually to be found working in her pottery studio or at home with her beloved cat, Rasputin. But when an old school friend turns up with a secret from the pa...
View BookTremarnock Book 5: The Girl Who Came Home to Cornwall
Author: Emma Burstall
Format: Online
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesTremarnock, Book 5
Duration 11h 49m
Escape to the Cornish coast with a new heartwarming Tremarnock novel, perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Philippa Ashley. In the quaint Cornish village of Tremarnock, Chabela Penhallow arrives for a holiday and to discover more about her Cornish ancestors. But, as always with newcomers to the small seaside town, rumours start to fly about this be...
View BookTremarnock Book 3: Tremarnock Summer
Author: Emma Burstall
Format: Online
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
Duration 13h 31m
Bramble Challoner has had a very normal upbringing. She lives in the suburbs of London with her parents and works at the call centre down the road. She still goes out with the boy she met at school. Bramble is dying for an adventure. So when her grandfather, Lord Penrose, dies, leaving his huge, rambling house in Cornwall to her, Bramble packs her...
View BookThe Post Girls Book 2: The Post Office Christmas
Author: Poppy Cooper
Format: Online
Author Poppy Cooper
Narrator Jess Nesling
SeriesThe Post Girls, Book 2
Duration 8h 53m
Can they deliver hope and friendship this Christmas? 1915. After the recent dramatic events at the Home Depot, Milly Woods is looking forward to spending as much time as possible with her post office girls, Nora and Beth - known as Liza to her friends. With Christmas fast approaching, their job of getting millions of letters and parcels to the troo...
View BookThe Post Girls Book 1: The Post Office Girls
Author: Poppy Cooper
Format: Online
Author Poppy Cooper
Narrator Jess Nesling
SeriesThe Post Girls, Book 1
Duration 9h 20m
With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going? 1915. On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But that evening, her twin brother Ned announces that he has signed up to fight. No longer able to stand working in her parents' village shop while others are doing their bit, B...
View BookAuthor: Pam Evans
Format: Online
Author Pam Evans
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 6h 16m
The Tulip Tea Rooms is a heartwarming and poignant saga from Pam Evans, set in London just after the Second World War. Perfect for listeners of Kitty Neale, Katie Flynn and Dilly Court. The Second World War is finally over when Lola Brown meets Harry Riggs at a dance. It is love at first sight, but when Harry tells Lola that he is a policeman, her...
View BookBirch End Book 2: A Widow's Courage
Author: Anna Jacobs
Format: Online
Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Julia Franklin
SeriesBirch End, Book 2
Duration 11h
Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man wants it too. Will she be able to buy her dream home? L...
View BookBirch End Book 3: A Woman's Promise
Author: Anna Jacobs
Format: Online
Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Julia Franklin
SeriesBirch End, Book 3
Duration 11h 28m
As the only female cabinet maker in the valley in 1935, Frankie Redfern is unusual. She faces prejudice even from her own mother. But she's content working for her father and is unwilling to give up her independence or the work she loves for marriage. When her husband falls gravely ill, Frankie's mother takes over, causing serious trouble for her d...
View BookYorkshire Blitz Book 3: A Daughter's Hope
Author: Donna Douglas
Format: Online
Author Donna Douglas
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesYorkshire Blitz, Book 3
Duration 10h 25m
From Sunday Times best-Selling author Donna Douglas. Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet. As the residents of Jubilee Row begin to rebuild their lives, twins Sybil and Maudie Maguire decide to go off and do their bit by joining the WAAFs. But what starts off as a great adventure soon force...
View BookA Wedding For The Biscuit Factory Girls
Author: Elsie Mason
Format: Online
Author Elsie Mason
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 11h 1m
Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks's life. Marrying handsome Sam, the youngest of the Farley boys, means joining the Farley clan, and there's nothing Mavis has ever wanted more than a family of her own. But the appearance of an unexpected guest ruins everything...and brings back painful memories Mavis would rather...
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