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Author: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h 47m
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and...
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 11h 5m
In this follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s, tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat....
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 8h 17m
When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her. Captivated and disconcerted by what she finds, and introduced to the joys of 'Gothic novels' by her new friend, Isabella, Catherine longs for mystery and roma...
View BookMrs Harris Goes to Paris and Mrs Harris Goes to New York
Author: Paul Gallico
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Author Paul Gallico
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 10h 16m
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's...
View BookAuthor: Sita Brahmachari
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Author Sita Brahmachari
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 46m
During the summer of her GCSEs Kite's world falls apart when her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide. Kite senses Dawn's spirit around her and it's not until she meets local boy, Garth, that Kite begins to open up - talking to a stranger is easier somehow. Kite would do anything to speak to Dawn just once more, to understand why. Otherwise how can s...
View BookAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h
When young Lucy Graham marries Sir Michael Audley, all seems well and good. Sir Michael is thoroughly devoted to his new bride and Lady Audley takes great pride in her privileged position at Audley Court. But Sir Michael's daughter, Alicia, is frustrated and uncomfortable with her new stepmother's girlish ways. Shortly afterwards, Sir Michael's nep...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 51m
'Who died?' I said, 'Or is it a secret?'. 'My mother, Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at least for...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Mansfield
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Author Katherine Mansfield
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 2h 34m
'Bliss' introduces us to Bertha, who experiences a sense of rapture as she reflects on her life. On her walk home one day, she is overwhelmed by a sense of bliss and contentment. However, her joy later turns to disappointment as she discovers her husband is having an affair with her new friend Pearl. This set also contains five other short stories...
View BookAuthor: Rose Tremain
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Author Rose Tremain
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 55m
Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. He struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads of the London scene. We see the road Lev travels through Lev's eyes, and we share his dilemmas: the intimacy of his friendships, o...
View BookAuthor: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 1h 19m
Classic story from the author of The Woman In White, a young woman finds herself caught between true love and her family's honor
View BookAuthor: Sabine Baring-Gould
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Author Sabine Baring-Gould
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 33m
A young man's suicide doesn't put paid to a young lady's ideas of going to a dance, despite the derision of her chaperone, who suspects that she is, at least in part, to blame. On the journey, a great breeze whips up in the ladies' carriage, and the young lady suffers a mishap, and auditory hallucinations...what is happening, and can it be explaine...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 3h 20m
A classic love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. At 19, Anne Eliot is persuaded to jilt her suitor - Captain Frederick Wentworth - because he has neither rank nor fortune. When they encounter one another eight years later will she make the same mistake again?
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 4h
At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted. When Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield...
View BookAuthor: Sally Gardner
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Author Sally Gardner
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 6h 30m
This story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her...
View BookAuthor: Louisa May Alcott
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Author Louisa May Alcott
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 9m
Loretta, Mary, Anne and Sylvia are four young women who belong to a sisterhood composed of superior women, who for various reasons, determine to remain single and devote themselves to earnest work. They, do not rush into marriage recklessly like other young girls, who fear being single and perhaps penniless or uncared for. They enjoy their liberty...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 16h 50m
Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 35h 38m
Dorothea Brooke is a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage with a pedantic scholar. Tertius Lydgate is a charming but tactless doctor. His marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and his pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career. Their interweaving tales reveal a complex...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 8h 43m
A classic love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. At 19, Anne Eliot is persuaded to jilt her suitor-Captain Frederick Wentworth-because he has neither rank nor fortune. When they encounter one another eight years later will she make the same mistake again?
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 16h 39m
Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic. She is `handsome, clever and rich' and has `a disposition to think too well of herself'. When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to f...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 1h 4m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of William and Mary, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by Juliet Stevenson and Adrian Scarborough. In William and Mary, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wrong...
View BookAuthor: Julian Fellowes
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Author Julian Fellowes
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 47m
On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and many of the handsome young men attending the ball will find themselves, the very next day, on the batt...
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