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Author: E V Thompson
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Author E V Thompson
Narrator Terry Wale
Duration 12h 30m
Cornwall, 1914. Perys Tremayne arrives at St Austell to stay with relatives at the ancient family home of Heligan House. But this is not a social visit: Perys is hoping to use his family connections to start a military career with the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry. Perys is a Tremayne, but only just: his childhood was coloured by the disgrace of...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Elizabeth Henry
Duration 17h 30m
With a harsh childhood behind him, Riley left school with little in the way of knowledge but brimful of optimism, and secure in the understanding that one of his teachers, Fred Beardsley, had faith in his future. While on his honeymoon in Paris, Fred ran into Riley, who said he had been offered a 'position' at The Little Palace Theatre in Fellburn....
View BookAuthor: Lyn Andrews
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Author Lyn Andrews
Narrator Julie Maisey
Duration 10h 30m
The Great War is over, and sisters Iris and Rose are adjusting to life in their modest Liverpool home after their brother Charlie has returned from the front. But when their mother sends Rose to the beautiful Welsh village of Tregarron to recover from an illness she discovers a new world of possibility at her feet. There, she obtains a job as house...
View BookAuthor: Catrin Collier
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Anne Cater
SeriesSwansea Girls, Book 2
Duration 17h
In the Swansea of the fifties, there is only one thing for a boy to do when he gets a girl 'into trouble' and that is to marry her - and quickly. Blighted by an unhappy childhood, passionately in love for the first time in his life, Jack can't wait to do 'the right thing'. A happy family of his own is all he ever wanted but not even in his wildest...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 15h
The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer's shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney's Department Store and young Evie starts at regular school. Then circums...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Stirling
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Author Jessica Stirling
Narrator Jane Macfarlane
Duration 11h 45m
Servant girl Betsy McBride thinks she has as much right as any girl to set her cap at Tom Brodie, the most dashing young man in the district. When her master asks her to help out the Brodie family she jumps at the chance to get a bit closer to him. She doesn't realise that Tom Brodie thinks the only way to save his family's fortune - or at least th...
View BookThe Belfast Girl On Galway Bay
Author: Anne Doughty
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Author Anne Doughty
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 8h 40m
When Elizabeth Stewart, the only daughter of Protestant parents, announced that she wants to leave Belfast for the west coast of Ireland, her family can't help but question her judgement. What could she possibly find in leafy Lisara that isn't available in the city? A stranger in the village, Lizzie's presence draws the attention of all the locals....
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 13h 25m
It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie - escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered shocking abuse at the hands of their father. They head to Liverpool where they will board a ship to New York. But the smallest, cruellest twist of fate conspi...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Hope
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Author Maggie Hope
Narrator Claire Jones
Duration 10h 16m
Taken in by her grandparents to ease the pressure on her family, Katie Benfield dreams of pursuing a nursing career. Despite many hardships, Katie achieves her goal, but tragedy strikes when her grandfather and her childhood sweetheart are killed in a mining accident. Distraught, Katie succumbs to the advances of the married owner of the mine, Matt...
View BookAuthor: Rosamunde Pilcher
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Author Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrator Lynn Redgrave
Duration 3h
At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca travels to Boscarva, a beautiful Cornish mansion, where she meets a family torn by passion and greed, and uncovers a family mystery...
View BookAuthor: Rosamunde Pilcher
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Author Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrator Lynn Redgrave
Duration 3h
Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus. When a sudden spring blizzard leaves them stranded by a roadside, it is the snow that g...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Stirling
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Author Jessica Stirling
Narrator Vivien Heilbron
Duration 13h 52m
On the brink of a disastrous marriage, Nicola Templeton finally rebels and flees to Edinburgh to seek refuge with her sister. Charlotte's own runaway marriage has already turned their father into an implacable foe and it seems that Nicola too may be cut off from her share of the Craigiehall estate if she does not bow to his will. The bustling Georg...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h
Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's farm. But for all her aunt's spiteful attempts to break Nell's independent spirit, she has never succeeded. And now Nell, pregnant and alone, is forced to leave behind the men in her life,...
View BookAuthor: Rosamunde Pilcher
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Author Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrator Hayley Atwell
Duration 19h 34m
Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age....
View BookAuthor: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 9h 52m
Brenda O'Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlings, the rag-and-bone man, says she can come and live with him and he will give her child a name in return for her running his home and looking after his children. Despite the gossip, a desperate Brenda has little choice but to accept. Life isn...
View BookAuthor: Lyn Andrews
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Author Lyn Andrews
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h
As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily, there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's job...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Hope
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Author Maggie Hope
Narrator Claire Jones
Duration 11h 43m
Forced to become a kitchen maid at Fortune Hall, Hetty Pearson strikes up an unlikely friendship with the younger son of the house, Richard. But Hetty is just a poor servant girl: what hope does she have of either winning Richard's heart or escaping his older brother's more base attentions?
View BookAuthor: Catrin Collier
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Anne Cater
SeriesSwansea Girls, Book 1
Duration 16h
The Pier Ballroom in Swansea on a Saturday night is the place to be for Lily, an evacuee unclaimed by her family at the end of the war; for Judy, taught independence by her war widow mother; for Katie, the product of a marriage between a drunken, violent father and a cowed, beaten mother; and for spoiled, wilful Helen. It is an evening that fuels j...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Patricia Gallimore
Duration 6h 30m
Alison Read, orphaned when she was two years old, had for some years lived and worked with Paul Aylmer, her appointed guardian. Paul, an experienced antique dealer whose business thrived in the southcoast town of Sealock, had come to rely on Alison, who had quickly learned the trade. But when he asked her to value the contents of Beacon Ride, a cha...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Elizabeth Henry
Duration 11h 30m
It is the 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince - but spiteful rumours about Kate's past seem to follow her and her illegitimate daughter Annie. Annie faces a choice between two ways of life - the middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence McBane, a brilliant mathematician from the under-...
View BookAuthor: Rita Bradshaw
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Author Rita Bradshaw
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 12h 30m
As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older brothers. Over the following years the Depression tightens its grip. Times are hard and Lucy's situation is made more difficult by the ominous presence of Tom Crawford, who lives next door, the eldest son of...
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