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Author: Eric Pringle
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Author Eric Pringle
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 4h 29m
Nerys Hughes reads this exciting novelisation of a classic Doctor Who story. May Day is approaching in the English village of Little Hodcombe, scene of an ancient Civil War battle. When the TARDIS arrives, the Doctor's companion Tegan is hoping to visit her grandfather. Yet the travellers learn that he has mysteriously disappeared, and the planned...
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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: Iris Gower
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Author Iris Gower
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 8h 16m
Charlotte Mortimer loves her new job as a teacher. She takes lodgings with Justin Weatherby, a businessman with two children. Justin needs to marry again in order to inherit the fortune his uncle has left to him. Charlotte seems like an obvious choice. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 9h 40m
Finding herself pregnant, Julia Winter is forced to leave home rather than bring shame on her family. Reduced to living in the slums of Liverpool, she eventually finds work in a respectable hotel where Eunice Hawkins, the manager's wife, is also expecting. For a while, Julia dares to hope for a better life for herself and her unborn child. But soon...
View BookAuthor: Rosie Harris
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Author Rosie Harris
Narrator Nerys Hughes
Duration 8h 38m
Crippled by polio, Winnie has little to look forward to. She's sent to an orphanage after her father is reported 'missing presumed dead', and her mother dies while on a drinking spree. Will her life improve at last or will she always be alone?
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