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Author: Patrick Gale
Author Patrick Gale
Narrator Patrick Gale
Duration 7h 53m
A journey. A reunion. A longing for a place called home... When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane sails home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned. His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is ambushed by a long buried anger she has never before expres...
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Author: Patrick Gale
Author Patrick Gale
Narrator Patrick Gale
Duration 11h 27m
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress,...
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