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Author: Catrin Collier
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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...
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Clare Higgins
Duration 15h 10m
It is 1938, and little Josie Flynn is sitting at the top of the stairs outside her attic room in Liverpool, her beautiful prostitute mother nearby. She doesn't know that her long and often lonely journey through life is just beginning. It is a journey that starts in heartbreak when Josie is sent to live with her miserable Aunt Ivy at Barefoot House...
View BookAuthor: Lizzie Lane
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Author Lizzie Lane
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 11h 33m
Struggling to make ends meet, Mary Anne Randall is offered no help by her drunk and abusive husband. A pawnbroking business run from the wash house at the back of her home is the only way she can hope to keep her three kids fed and clothed. But, as storm clouds gather over Europe, can Mary Anne break free from her loveless marriage for what might b...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 9h 29m
Karyn and Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle and noise of Cardiff in search of a new life. Tudor longs to be an entertainer and so Karyn gets a job, leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia. But when Tudor is arrested for begging, Karyn is horrified to learn that he has been busking during the da...
View BookAuthor: Catrin Collier
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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'...
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 11h 10m
Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven - but with the outbreak of war, Barney volunteered to fight, and the couple were separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn't the...
View BookAuthor: Lizzie Lane
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Author Lizzie Lane
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 15h 36m
It's 1953. Coronation Year. While Bristol is still recovering from the aftermath of the war, three very different women are counting the cost. Polly longs for an easier, more glamorous life, but with her irrepressible young daughter and her charming - if scheming - husband, will things improve? Charlotte is trying to forget her illicit wartime roma...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 10h 40m
In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour, a reclusive creature who never opens the door to anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no way of knowing that the woman next door, Madeleine Delaney, is driven by a dangerous memory that for...
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 BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 10h 5m
Silas and Cathleen have loved each other since childhood. But when a jealous woman drives them apart, each is swept to a place where it seems there is no love, no peace, and no way back. This is a dramatic tale of courage and heartbreak.
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 10h 29m
Home is where the heart is - but it's also where the pain lies! Young Davie Adams is all alone. Devastated, he flees his hometown of Blackburn to escape the memories of the worst night of his life. With little more than the shirt on his back he sets off on a lonely, friendless road, determined to find his father. Two people are stricken by his depa...
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 14h 35m
At the age of nineteen, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary - although she doesn't know quite how to go about it. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get married and raise children in Liverpool like her elder sisters: Claire, who is a mother-hen, easy-going Norah and elegant Aileen. But Kitty's resolve is...
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: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 9h 10m
When Gaynor's god-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps her to forget her sorrows. Until, with the war looming, he must return home and Gaynor is left heartbroken once more. And when her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 14h 30m
Michael Gallagher is an Irish seaman, fighting with the Royal Navy. He comes ashore in Liverpool when his ship needs repairs and meets lovely young Stella Bennett on the quayside, searching for her lost kitten. The young couple fall in love and want to marry but the Bennetts have other plans for Stella and when she gives birth to a baby, Ginny, Mic...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 16h
One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. But Patty...
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...
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