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Author: Joan Bakewell
Format: Online
Author Joan Bakewell
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 5h 19m
When Joan Bakewell, Labour Peer, author and famous champion of the older people's right to a good and fruitful life, decided that she could no longer remain in her old home, she had to confront what she calls 'the next segment of life'. Disposing of things accumulated during a long life, saying goodbye to her home and the memories of more than 50 y...
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Author: Charlotte Bingham
Format: Online
Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 7h 36m
This tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes-only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There the ever-resourceful Aunt Biddy is struggling to get her nephew Tom's life back on track by opening his only asset as an i...
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Author: Betsy Tobin
Format: Online
Author Betsy Tobin
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 10h 33m
A woman wades into the waters of Morecambe Bay in a drunken bid to commit suicide. She finds herself instead saving the life of a young Chinese cockle picker, a survivor of a tragic mass drowning. Wen and Angie share neither language nor experience, but she agrees to let him stay with her and disappear. Within a short time their unlikely pairing bl...
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