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Author: Rosie Harris
Format: MP3 CD
Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nrys Hughes
Duration 8h 36m
Pretty and vivacious, Abbie Martin has grown up in squalor in a house off Scotland Road, one of Liverpool's poorest and most deprived areas. Abbie, the youngest of three children, longs to be loved and cosseted by her mother, Ellen. But Ellen cannot provide the love that Abbie needs. A drunk, she spends her weekends and evenings drinking with her e...
View BookAuthor: Maureen Lee
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Author Maureen Lee
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 14h 2m
As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson, a widow, it means never-ending worry when her twin boys are called up and sent to France; Sheila Reilly's husband, Cal, faces the terror of a U-B...
View BookAuthor: Dilly Court
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Author Dilly Court
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 13h 1m
Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn. And it is all Irene can do to keep the family together. Billy's addiction soon leads him into...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Georgia Maguire
Duration 20h 7m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charlie by Lesley Pearse. Her family is threatened and only she can save it . . . When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she is shocked and terrified. But after talking to the police she realises that her father's business dealings can't be so innocent. With h...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 10h 21m
No-one thought she had the courage... Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but over the years, her children have watched while their father chipped away at Lucy's self-confidence. Now the children are following their own paths, and Lucy has never felt more alone. When tragedy strikes at the heart of the fam...
View BookAuthor: Catrin Collier
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 12h 48m
Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 - Charlotte von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and to announce her engagement to a Prussian Count. Meanwhile, Hitler is ready to plunge the world into war, one that will wipe East Prussia from the face of the map. Charlotte is forced to leave her beloved homeland. By 1946,...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 3: One Special Village
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 3
Duration 10h 35m
Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter, Cathie, scrimping and saving to get by. But after she suffers a violent asthma attack, the doctors say she must move to the clean, fresh air of the countryside to have any hope of survival. When Harry chances upon a patch of land for sale in Ellindale and an advert for a disused...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 2: One Kind Man
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 2
Duration 11h 2m
Lancashire, 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child, he spends a few years travelling to keep the sad memories at bay. Just as he's ready to settle down again, his great-uncle dies and leaves everything to him. This includes Heythorpe House in Ellindale, just down the road from Leah Willcox and her little fizzy drink factory. Finn...
View BookEllindale Saga Book 1: One Quiet Woman
Author: Anna Jacobs
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Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 1
Duration 11h 2m
Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men and pawning the few belongings she has left will only keep their vicious rent collector at bay for a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, the...
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