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Author: Nella Last
Format: MP3 CD
Author Nella Last
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 11h 33m
In September 1939, housewife and mother, Nella Last, began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for...
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator David Rintoul, Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 21m
Helen Graham moves to Wildfell Hall in a shroud of mystery: where has she come from, and who exactly is she? Anne's novel is the story of the beautiful and mysterious Helen Graham, who arrives at Wildfell Hall suddenly one day. No-one knows who she is or where she has come from, and Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who has fallen in love with her, s...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 23m
More than just a simple tale of the supernatural, James poses questions about childhood innocence, corruption and hysteria. The story focuses on a na‹ve governess who takes charge of two children at the lonely house of Bly. When she begins to see ghosts, she believes that the children do too, with devastating consequences.
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 3h 47m
There's something mysterious, exciting, but frightening, too, about the house Bosie, Clara and Noel have come to stay in. Surrounded by its overgrown garden, no other houses in sight, it looks lonely. And are the shuttered windows to keep burglars out, or to keep other people in - like a prison? To the three children, staying with grandparents they...
View BookAuthor: Jane Robinson
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Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 6h 57m
Robinson presents the inspiring story of the first young women who overcame all the odds to get their education and attend university. Using the words of the women themselves, this book charts the fight for and expansion of higher education for women.
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 12h 33m
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will h...
View BookAuthor: Katie Hickman
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Author Katie Hickman
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h 23m
Elizabeth sits in the Bodleian library with trembling hands. Before her is a piece of parchment which provides the clue she has been looking for to a story that has been untold for 400 years: a tale of intrigue, forbidden love and dangerous secrets. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
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...
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