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Author: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 16h 47m
Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the...
View BookThe Deverill Chronicles Book 3: The Last Secret of the Deverills
Author: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 14h 15m
The dramatic conclusion to the bestselling Deverill Chronicles. It is 1939, and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. Martha Wallace came to Dublin from her home in America to find her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. Bridie Doyle, now mistress of Castle Deverill, is determined to ma...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Mike Rodgers
Duration 8h 16m
Molly and Jack's relationship is being torn apart by Jack's nightmares. Trapped in a place where he is taunted by eyes in the gloom, it is becoming harder for Molly to pull him free. Realising that he is being driven close to the edge, Jack decides to hunt for answers. It soon becomes clear that he must trace people from his past. But Jack could ne...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 13h 26m
Gracie Burton is a grandmother living quietly in Devon. She has rarely left the village over the past 40 years. Her daughter, Carina, is immensely high-powered, with her own fast-paced business in London. She has very little time for her 17-year-old daughter, Anastasia, away at boarding school, and even less time for her ageing mother. In many ways...
View BookAuthor: Rosamunde Pilcher
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Author Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrator Helen Johns
Duration 40h 39m
Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis, invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. She falls in love, too,...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 13h 4m
Since the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law Jacob. In spite of her own despair, she is determined to protect her brother Tom and her baby son Georgie from Jacob's bullying ways - for she is all they have in the world. But when Jacob hires villainous S...
View BookThe Deverill Chronicles Book 1: Songs of Love and War
Author: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 17h 30m
Set in the ruggedly wild countryside of West Cork, Ireland, in the early part of the twentieth century, Songs of Love and War is an epic tale of three very different women all born in the year 1900: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant Engl...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Ben Elliot
Duration 12h 41m
With her shy smile and kind nature, Alice Jacobs wins the hearts of the Arnold family. Decent and well respected Tom and Nancy Arnold have raised two very different sons: Frank and Joe. Frank is a devious, brutal man, determined to have Alice for himself. So Joe, who has himself fallen in love with her, leaves home when they become engaged and only...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 9h 50m
Hannah and Humphrey Drayton were regarded by all who knew them as the perfect married couple. However, all was not as it appeared on the surface, and after years of tyranny and loneliness, Hannah could no longer bear this stuffy City broker. The only relief she had was from his absence on Thursday evenings, when pleayed bridge with a group of acqua...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 11h 15m
Catherine Cookson was the original and bestselling saga writer, selling over 100 million copies of her novels. Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish e...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 9h 30m
Edward Carter is a bully of a man, who inspires fear in the hearts of all who meet him.Adam Carter is 12 years old. His father's reign of terror over his family has Adam's mother Peggy too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. Then one afternoon, Phil makes a life-changing decisio...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h 15m
Bill Bailey, the rugged Liverpudlian, was now a fully-fledged Tyneside building contractor, as staunchly loyal to his squad of workmen as they were to him. He had also met and married Fiona, a young widow with her own loveable family, to which she and Bill shortly added with the adoption of the orphaned Mamie. Life was good, but the economic climat...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h
As a young widow left badly off, and with three children to bring up, Fiona Nelson had come to know all the problems of trying to make ends meet. So despite the inevtably disapproving comments of her own mother, she advertised for a lodger to help pay for some of the bills. The result was Bill, somewhat rough around the edges perhaps, but nobody's...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 12h 3m
When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged...
View BookThe Deverill Chronicles Book 2: Daughters of Castle Deverill
Author: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 18h 15m
It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland for hundreds of years, has burned to the ground. But young and flighty Celia Deverill is determined to restore the sad ruin to its former glory. Celia married well and...
View BookAuthor: Marie Joseph
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Author Marie Joseph
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 8h 15m
It was a small Lancashire town on the eve of the General Strike. A town where the gap between the rich and the poor was about to erupt into a bloody field of battle. Libby and Carrie were more than sisters. Mirror images, they were different sides of the same heart, impossible to separate or divide. Until they both fell in love with Tom.
View BookAuthor: Valerie Wood
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Author Valerie Wood
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 13h 8m
Ruby and Grace had grown up in the slums of Middle Court, the poorest place in Hull. Friends since early childhood, they had supported each other in bad times and good. Ruby's ma, Bess, addicted to the opium which dulled the pain of her miserable existence, tried hard to be a good mother, but without too much success, while Grace's parents, Bob and...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Sally Scott
Duration 26h 11m
Two young sisters sent far, far from home ... When tragedy deprives little Dulcie Taylor and her sister May of their parents, they are sent first to an orphanage and then shipped off to begin a new life in Australia. But the 'better life' the sisters are promised in this new and exciting country turns out to be a lie. It seems everyone who ever sto...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 4
Duration 10h 46m
Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing! - but this time he is determined not to be ruled by his big heart and hot head. Yet somehow, within just one day...
View BookEmma Series Book 3: Emma's Duty
Author: Rosie Clarke
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Author Rosie Clarke
Narrator Helena Coates
SeriesEmma, Book 3
Duration 9h 26m
Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband's return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover-for while he still loves her, he is now a married man...The final instalment in Rosie Clarke...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Sophie Ablett
Duration 17h 36m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Secrets by Lesley Pearse, read by Sophie Ablett. Without her mother she is alone in the world . . . Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness. But when trust is betrayed Adele has no choice but to run away . . . Alone and friendless...
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