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Outcast Child
- By: Kitty Neale
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance120
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Story121
Daisy Bacon has an ordinary, happy life living with her family in South London, until tragedy strikes and her mother is killed in a devastating accident. Blaming herself, Daisy retreats into a world of silence, unable to utter a word. When her father remarries, the family home becomes unbearable at the mercy of cruel stepmother Vera. Luckily, Daisy can always count on her cousin Lizzie to bring sunshine to her life. But when shocking truths about Vera come to light, could it bring the possibility of a fresh start for Daisy after all?
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Loved it
- By FELICITY GAINARD on 30-07-19
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Outcast Child
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-07-19
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Shore
- By: Sarah Maine
- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
From the author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year The House Between Tides comes a sweeping and atmospheric story of family ties, interwoven mysteries, love and redemption, set between Scotland and Newfoundland.
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Moving story of secrets, love and loss
- By Mrs AS Mallabar on 01-05-25
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The Forgotten Shore
- Narrated by: Katherine Press
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Shanna
- By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
From New York Times bestselling author Kathleen E. Woodiwiss comes one of her most iconic and beloved romances of all time… A pact is sealed in secret behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison. In return for one night of unparalleled pleasure, a dashing condemned criminal consents to wed a...
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Not a good audio
- By Shelly on 24-07-23
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Shanna
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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All I Have to Give
- By: Mary Wood
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Story29
When all is lost, can she find the strength to start again? It is 1916 and Edith Mellor is one of the few female surgeons in Britain. Compelled to use her skills for the war effort, she travels to the Somme, where she is confronted with the horrors at the front. Yet amongst the bloodshed on the...
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Good story well read
- By Mrs D G Headley on 14-07-17
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All I Have to Give
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Series: Generation War, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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Marking Time
- The Beloved Second Instalment in The Cazalet Chronicles
- By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrated by: Indira Varma
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Beautifully read by Indira Varma and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes...
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Marking Time
- The Beloved Second Instalment in The Cazalet Chronicles
- Narrated by: Indira Varma
- Series: The Cazalet Chronicles, Book 2
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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The Fallen Women
- By: Lindsey Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Since the death of her parents, orphan Ann Felton has had to struggle to survive. The grimy and gruelling Black Country is no place for a girl all alone, and Ann is relieved when she gets work at The Bell public house. Victoria Beckett and Viscount Richard Wyndham grew up with silver spoons firmly in their mouths, and neither can understand Ann's struggles. But before long Ann will change both their lives forever.
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Very entertaining
- By Linda jauncey on 17-01-26
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The Fallen Women
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Series: A Black Country Novel, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 27-02-21
- Language: English
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The Clippie Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance100
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Story101
The Clippie Girls is a compelling story of love, loss and heartbreak in the Second World War, by the author of the Fleethaven Trilogy, Margaret Dickinson. Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their...
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Family at war!
- By Sandra on 27-01-17
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The Clippie Girls
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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A Wartime Wife
- Mary Anne Randall, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance73
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Story72
Bristol 1939. At forty years of age, Mary Anne Randall still turns heads. With an abusive husband spending most of his wages on beer, she has resigned herself to be the sole breadwinner to protect her family and keep the wolves from the door. In order to make ends meet, Mary Anne runs a pawnbroking business from the wash house at the end of the garden. Following the outbreak of war an opportunity presents itself to escape her loveless marriage and find true love. Will she take that chance, or carry on living just for her children and not for herself?
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Gripping
- By Jackie Jackson on 09-09-22
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A Wartime Wife
- Mary Anne Randall, Book 1
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Series: Mary Anne Randall, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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The Secret Wife
- A captivating story of romance, passion and mystery
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall179
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Performance157
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Story157
The stories of two very different women, linked by the secrets and lies of history, merge together as past and present weave together in this stunning story of love, loss and resilience. 2016. Kitty, fleeing from a devastating revelation in her own life, finds herself at her...
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Laura Kirman is a terrible reader & has let the author down
- By Tripster on 06-09-16
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The Secret Wife
- A captivating story of romance, passion and mystery
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman, Thomas Judd
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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The Last Secret of the Deverills
- The Deverill Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Santa Montefiore
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall346
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Performance328
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Story328
Martha Wallace came to Dublin from her home in America to find her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. Bridie Doyle, now mistress of Castle Deverill, is determined to make the castle she used to work in her home. But her flamboyant husband, Cesare, has other ideas. Kitty Deverill has come to terms with her life with her husband, Robert. But then Jack O'Leary, the love of her life, returns to Ballinakelly....
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Enjoyable ........................................
- By Amazon Customer on 22-04-18
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The Last Secret of the Deverills
- The Deverill Chronicles, Book 3
- Narrated by: Genevieve Swallow
- Series: The Deverill Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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The Ballroom Blitz
- By: Anton Du Beke
- Narrated by: Anton Du Beke, Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall115
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Performance104
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Story104
September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night. Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, the dashing Raymond de Guise struggles to define his role in this new world, and to do his duty both to his country, and his beloved wife Nancy- who needs him now more than ever.
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the bombs dropped but that's not all!!!
- By Anonymous on 07-11-22
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The Ballroom Blitz
- Narrated by: Anton Du Beke, Thomas Judd
- Series: Buckingham, Book 5
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Sea of Memories
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall175
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Performance154
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Story155
In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella’s life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful Île de Ré and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the island’s sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, and, for the first time in her life, Ella feels truly free. But the outbreak of war casts everything in a new light. Ella is forced to return to Scotland, where she volunteers for the war effort alongside the dashing Angus. In this new world, Ella feels herself drifting further and further from who she was on the Île de Ré.
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not sure.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-07-18
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Sea of Memories
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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A Gift from Woolworths
- Woolworths, Book 4
- By: Elaine Everest
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance92
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Story93
Will the war be over by Christmas? As the war moves into 1945 the lives of the women of Woolworths continue. When store manager, Betty Billington, announces she is expecting Douglas’s baby her future life is about to change more than she expects. Freda has fallen in love with the handsome...
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A gift from Woolworths
- By Sakazoke on 18-11-18
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A Gift from Woolworths
- Woolworths, Book 4
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Woolworths, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop
- A heartwarming and uplifting World War Two novel about community, friendship and books
- By: Joanna Toye
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Brought to you by Penguin. New stories are being written at The Little Penguin Bookshop… Carrie Anderson’s business selling books at her local train station is thriving and, with her beloved Mike returned from war, everything feels as though it is falling into place. That is, until Mike is...
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Wonderful
- By MRS S RITSON on 17-05-26
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A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop
- A heartwarming and uplifting World War Two novel about community, friendship and books
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Series: The Little Penguin Bookshop, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Latimer House
- By: Jules Wake
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
Society heiress Evelyn Brooke-Edwards is a skilled interrogator—her beauty making her a non-threat in the eyes of the prisoners. Farm girl Betty Connors may not be able to type as she claimed, but her crack analytical skills soon find her unearthing covert connections. German ex-pat Judith Stern never expected to find herself listening in to German POWs' whispered conversations, but the Nazis took her father from her, so she will do whatever it takes to help the Allies end this war.
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A wonderful story
- By dk.bookworm on 02-09-21
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The Secrets of Latimer House
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 30-08-21
- Language: English
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Kitty and Her Sisters
- By: Maureen Lee
- Narrated by: Nerys Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance38
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Story38
At the age of 19, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get married and raise children in Liverpool like her sisters.
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Kitty and Her Sisters
- By Joseph on 26-03-09
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Kitty and Her Sisters
- Narrated by: Nerys Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-11-07
- Language: English
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A Rose In Winter
- By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story11
The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one...
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A lovely story
- By E on 03-04-26
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A Rose In Winter
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Christmas with the Railway Girls
- The Railway Girls, Book 4
- By: Maisie Thomas
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
The railway girls have survived unsettling times, and while the bombings might have eased, their own turmoil has only just begun. With Christmas fast approaching, will their wishes come true?
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Another good read, deals with a sensitive subject
- By Vicky on 20-12-21
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Christmas with the Railway Girls
- The Railway Girls, Book 4
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Series: The Railway Girls, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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A Mother's War
- By: Mollie Walton
- Narrated by: Lu Corfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance61
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Story61
Rosina Calvert-Lazenby, the only surviving member of her family and widowed by forty-four, has lived at Raven Hall all her life. With war approaching, Rosina must be strong for her daughters, five confident young women who are thick as thieves. When the RAF come to stay at Raven Hall, Rosina finds herself intrigued by their charismatic, albeit young, officer. But is there time for love with the war looming and her eldest daughter leaving home?
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Of its type, pretty good
- By Radioman on 23-01-26
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A Mother's War
- Narrated by: Lu Corfield
- Series: Raven Hall Saga, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Conspiracy of Lies
- By: Kathryn Gauci
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance74
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Story74
1940. With the Germans about to enter Paris, Claire Bouchard flees France for England. Two years later she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive and sent back into occupied France to work alongside the Resistance. Working undercover as a teacher in Brittany, Claire accidentally befriends the wife of the German Commandant of Rennes, and the blossoming friendship is about to become a dangerous mission. Claire begins a double life as a Gestapo Commandant’s mistress to retrieve information, but ghosts from her past make the deception more painful than she could have imagined.
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the horror of war
- By Amazon Customer......satey on 08-10-25
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Conspiracy of Lies
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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