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The Hidden Girl
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Anna Madeley
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah takes the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War.
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Brillant
- By breda mcateer on 01-10-24
By: Lucinda Riley, and others
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The Sky Beneath Us
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price, Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she’s left behind in Scotland.
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A botanical journey and a pandemic
- By M Hauge on 23-09-24
By: Fiona Valpy
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Eugene O’Neill: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- 9 Full-Cast Productions including Long Day’s Journey into the Night, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh & more
- By: Eugene O'Neill
- Narrated by: Dominic West, Shaun Dingwall, Anthony Jackson, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Eugene O'Neill’s revolutionary 20th century dramas changed the direction of American theatre, introducing European realism and experimental techniques to the US stage. He wrote more than 50 plays, portraying characters on the margins of society and tackling controversial issues, winning a Nobel Prize, and four Pulitzer Prizes.
By: Eugene O'Neill
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When We Were Friends
- A Short Story
- By: Jane Green
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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By all accounts, Lucy’s handled her divorce well. She’s finally in the cozy, plant-filled house of her dreams. And although she doesn’t fit in with the other divorcées—all busy looking for their next ex—she’s excited to get down to earth and savor the small joys of life. When Lucy meets Elle, a hip younger woman who shares her same passions, their connection is instant. Taking a chance on kismet, Lucy forges a friendship that fills her days with meaning. She and Elle are inseparable, from sunup to sundown, enjoying the immediate ease and familiarity of each other’s company.
By: Jane Green
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Old Dog and Partridge
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy
- By: Joe Turner
- Narrated by: Michael Williams, Lisa Coleman, Simon Greenall, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Landlord Jack and his daughter Nicola used to be close – when she was seven, and all she talked about was ponies. Now she’s 26 and works in the City, and they’ve drifted apart. So when she comes back for a Christmas visit and announces she wants to stay and help manage the pub, he’s less than thrilled. Barmaid Mrs Drummond is unimpressed too – she’s never liked Nicola – but regular customer Andy is delighted she’s back home.
By: Joe Turner
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The Beforelife of Eliza Valentine
- By: Laura Pearson
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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You’ve heard of the Afterlife. Welcome to the Beforelife. There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me – Eliza. We came into being the day Becca Valentine was born. We’ve been by her side ever since. What she doesn’t know yet, is that one day she might become our mother. Then two men come into her life. Both seeking her heart. And then we realise: everything rests on Becca’s love story. Because one of the men is Lucy and Thomas’s father. And the other is mine and Samuel’s. And there’s simply no way we can all be born.
By: Laura Pearson
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The Hidden Girl
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Anna Madeley
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah takes the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War.
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Brillant
- By breda mcateer on 01-10-24
By: Lucinda Riley, and others
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The Sky Beneath Us
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price, Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn’t yet know that it’s a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she’s left behind in Scotland.
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A botanical journey and a pandemic
- By M Hauge on 23-09-24
By: Fiona Valpy
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Eugene O’Neill: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- 9 Full-Cast Productions including Long Day’s Journey into the Night, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh & more
- By: Eugene O'Neill
- Narrated by: Dominic West, Shaun Dingwall, Anthony Jackson, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Eugene O'Neill’s revolutionary 20th century dramas changed the direction of American theatre, introducing European realism and experimental techniques to the US stage. He wrote more than 50 plays, portraying characters on the margins of society and tackling controversial issues, winning a Nobel Prize, and four Pulitzer Prizes.
By: Eugene O'Neill
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When We Were Friends
- A Short Story
- By: Jane Green
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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By all accounts, Lucy’s handled her divorce well. She’s finally in the cozy, plant-filled house of her dreams. And although she doesn’t fit in with the other divorcées—all busy looking for their next ex—she’s excited to get down to earth and savor the small joys of life. When Lucy meets Elle, a hip younger woman who shares her same passions, their connection is instant. Taking a chance on kismet, Lucy forges a friendship that fills her days with meaning. She and Elle are inseparable, from sunup to sundown, enjoying the immediate ease and familiarity of each other’s company.
By: Jane Green
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Old Dog and Partridge
- A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy
- By: Joe Turner
- Narrated by: Michael Williams, Lisa Coleman, Simon Greenall, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Landlord Jack and his daughter Nicola used to be close – when she was seven, and all she talked about was ponies. Now she’s 26 and works in the City, and they’ve drifted apart. So when she comes back for a Christmas visit and announces she wants to stay and help manage the pub, he’s less than thrilled. Barmaid Mrs Drummond is unimpressed too – she’s never liked Nicola – but regular customer Andy is delighted she’s back home.
By: Joe Turner
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The Beforelife of Eliza Valentine
- By: Laura Pearson
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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You’ve heard of the Afterlife. Welcome to the Beforelife. There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me – Eliza. We came into being the day Becca Valentine was born. We’ve been by her side ever since. What she doesn’t know yet, is that one day she might become our mother. Then two men come into her life. Both seeking her heart. And then we realise: everything rests on Becca’s love story. Because one of the men is Lucy and Thomas’s father. And the other is mine and Samuel’s. And there’s simply no way we can all be born.
By: Laura Pearson
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Coming Home to Starr's Fall
- By: Kate Hewitt
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Just like the whole town of Starr’s Fall, thinks Laurie Ellis – as she and her beloved dog Max head to collect the store keys. Maybe she has seen better days, too, but she’s certainly ready for a new start—and to leave her past behind. Still Laurie wonders whether she made a terrible mistake in coming to lovable but shabby Starr’s Fall. Will she even find customers for her pet store and bakery, never mind a community to welcome and accept her?
By: Kate Hewitt
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Love Story
- By: Lindsey Kelk
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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She’s a small-town schoolteacher, he’s a hotshot creative director. Together, it’s hate at first sight. Sophie Taylor has a secret and Joe Walsh is the last person she'd tell. He’s devilishly handsome, incredibly hot – and far too sure of himself. But Sophie needs his help. Because she's not just hiding something small. She is Este Cox, the mysterious romance author the entire world is desperate to unmask. When a trip to the countryside means sharing a cottage with only one bed, it’s a short step to sharing a whole lot more besides… Can Sophie trust Joe with the truth – and be herself?
By: Lindsey Kelk
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Intermezzo
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Julien Frison
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
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Ivan et Peter, deux frères que les années ont éloignés, se retrouvent à la mort de leur père. Ivan, vingt-deux ans, est un brillant joueur d’échecs, ultrasensible et solitaire. Peter, juriste renommé de Dublin, est un trentenaire aux multiples conquêtes. Tous deux vivent des amours périlleuses pendant ce moment délicat du deuil, intermède de vie où la fragilité n’exclut pas l’aventure. Avec Intermezzo, l’Irlandaise Sally Rooney signe un nouveau roman sensuel et fascinant dans la veine de Normal People, où les personnages se mettent à nu, les couples se font et se défont dans une délicieuse confusion des sentiments.
By: Sally Rooney
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A Postcard from Puffin Island
- Puffin Island, Book 1
- By: Christie Barlow
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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The plan is simple: hop in her reliable camper van and cross the Channel, headed for a rendezvous with her best friend in Amsterdam. But when Verity stumbles across a decades-old postcard while preparing her cottage for its temporary tenants, her life takes an unexpected turn, and she finds herself on a ferry to Puffin Island instead. Verity’s childhood was filled with tales of adventures set on the picturesque island, but she’d always thought her beloved granny had made it all up. Now, knowing the stories and the setting were real, Verity is determined to find the postcard’s sender.
By: Christie Barlow
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The Twin
- By: Steena Holmes
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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My twin brother is the person I’m closest to. But now he frightens me. We both have the same white-blond hair and clear blue eyes. All our lives people have stared at us. So we had to be there for each other. Bryce tried to protect me from our dad. But when he died, I thought I was finally safe. After the funeral, Bryce takes me aside: “Since Dad’s passing . . . well, it’s been going on for a few years now. I’ve been keeping a huge secret from you.”
By: Steena Holmes
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A Borrowed Path
- By: Imogen Clark
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Eve has always had a tricky relationship with her mother, Agatha, and returning to Fox House, the family home, hasn’t made it any easier. When Eve’s daughter, Lyra, and granddaughter, Skye, unexpectedly turn up, it becomes clear that four generations of women under one roof is a recipe for trouble. Not least because Lyra clearly needs help but refuses to say why.
By: Imogen Clark
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Hushjælpens skygge
- Hushjælpen 3
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Camilla Qvistgaard Dyssel
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Hun bor i huset ved siden af. Hun kender dine hemmeligheder... ”I må være vores nye naboer!” udbryder mrs. Lowell og vinker fra den anden side af rækværket. Jeg holder min datters hånd i et fast greb og smiler tilbage. Men så snart mrs. Lowell ser min mand, får hun et mærkeligt udtryk i ansigtet. I det øjeblik lover jeg mig selv noget. Vi har endelig et hjem. Min fortid er langt, langt bag os. Og jeg vil gøre alt for, at det forbliver sådan...Jeg plejede at gøre rent i andre menneskers hjem – nu kan jeg slet ikke fatte, at dette hjem faktisk er mit.
By: Freida McFadden
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Courage for the Cabinet Girl
- By: Molly Green
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Britain is in the throes of war, but Katharina Valentine feels sidelined. Employed as a shorthand-typist in the War Office, she is transferred to the basement below – having had no idea that this dark, airless, underground maze, home of the top-secret Cabinet War Rooms, even existed, let alone what her work will entail. Unexpected staff shortages present an opportunity to work directly for Winston Churchill himself, and Katie jumps at the chance. And as she grows closer to Wing Commander Baxter Edwards, things start to look up…
By: Molly Green
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The Gilded Cage
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Powerful, hard-hearted Leonard Mears ruthlessly presides over his wife and children, exiling them from the outside world and brutally punishing any disobedience. But he is also a man with a dark secret – an illegitimate daughter that he forced his sister to bring up. The girl is now a young woman who, unbeknownst to him, is determined to find the father that abandoned her.
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Beautiful story 📕
- By Kindle Customer on 21-09-24
By: Josephine Cox
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The Witches of Santo Stefano
- A Novel
- By: Wendy Webb
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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When Cassie Graves discovers her husband’s affair, it’s enough to chip away at the foundation of her life. But after researching her family’s Italian ancestry, it completely crumbles beneath her. Her grandmother Gia’s often-told stories about the past are a lie. Her much-romanticized great-grandfather Giovanni may not even have existed. Most alarming of all, it appears her mysterious great-grandmother Violetta died by stregoneria—witchcraft.
By: Wendy Webb
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A French Country Escape
- By: Jennifer Bohnet
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Buying and relocating to the Château du Cheval in rural France has fulfilled one of Peter and Ingrid Chevalier’s lifelong ambitions. Despite never being able to trace a missing link in Peter’s French ancestry he feels he has finally come home. Now they must renovate the Château to its former glory and make it pay for itself…With money getting tight, they take the decision to sell a couple of cottages on the estate. Can the Château begin to pay for itself and be sustainable for the future?
By: Jennifer Bohnet
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Not Your Child
- By: Sheila Norton
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence, Helen Keeley
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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All it takes is one message for Gemma’s life to fall apart. A confirmation of all she’s feared these last few months. Jack was supposed to be preparing for their new start in Australia, building their home, building their life together. And now this. Gone. Without a trace. Leaving their perfect world – all that their two-year-old daughter, Poppy, knows – shattered. Crystal comes into Gemma’s life at the opportune moment. This new friend, who’s been through it before, who knows how it feels for all of your hopes and dreams to suddenly implode, who wants to help, who will do anything…
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lovely story
- By Kindle Customer on 29-09-24
By: Sheila Norton
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Hill of Secrets
- A Novel
- By: Galina Vromen
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world’s first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert base with no explanation, have simple orders: Stand by. Make do. Above all, don’t ask questions. Christine, forced to abandon her art restoration business in New York for her husband’s career, struggles to reinvent herself and cope with his increasing aloofness. Gertie, the inquisitive teenage daughter of a German Jewish refugee physicist enlists Christine to help her unravel hidden truths and deal with parents haunted by their past.
By: Galina Vromen
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La chica oculta [The Hidden Girl]
- By: Lucinda Riley, Matuca Fernández de Villavicencio - translator
- Narrated by: Isa Puchol, Marcel Navarro
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Nacida en un pequeño pueblo de la campiña de Yorkshire, en Inglaterra, Leah Thompson crece para convertirse en una joven de belleza deslumbrante. Y cuando capta la atención de la influyente pero conflictiva familia Delancey sabe que su vida nunca volverá a ser la misma. Años más tarde, Leah se ha convertido en la supermodelo más cotizada del mundo, con constantes viajes a Milán, Londres y Nueva York rodeada de lujo y glamour. Pero su pasado la persigue como una oscura sombra, misteriosamente entrelazado con la trágica historia de dos hermanos en la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
By: Lucinda Riley, and others
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The Transit of Venus
- By: Shirley Hazzard
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Shirley Hazzard
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Caro, gallant and adventurous, has been courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death, and two secrets wait in ambush for them.
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Eloquent
- By Roly on 29-09-24
By: Shirley Hazzard
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The Last Bookshop in Prague
- By: Helen Parusel
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted to silence. For bookshop owner, Jana, doing the right thing was never a question. So when opportunity comes to help the resistance, she offers herself – and her bookshop. Using her window displays as covert signals and hiding secret codes in book marks, she’ll do all in her power to help.
By: Helen Parusel
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A Reason to See You Again
- A Novel
- By: Jami Attenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
By: Jami Attenberg
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The Girls Who Dared to Love
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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Lucinda McFarlane is engaged to be married to dashing Sir David Melcome, but their society wedding has to be scaled right down when war is declared. Will David even live to see their baby born? Mabel Oakley, once a maid for the McFarlanes, has inherited Thomas Clarke’s printing works, but an unexpected turn of events leaves her at the mercy of her father’s old enemy, solicitor John Sheridan, just as she is beginning to fall for his son. What can she do?
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A lovely....
- By Janet Jones on 29-09-24
By: Diney Costeloe
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Gifted
- A Novel
- By: Suzumi Suzuki, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted—Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English—offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.
By: Suzumi Suzuki, and others
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All My Fault
- By: Emma Robinson
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Charlotte and I argued so badly the last time we spoke. I was just worried about her, but she refused to hear me out. And now she’s lying pale, still and silent in a hospital bed. I’m convinced this was no accident: the police should be questioning her boyfriend, Freddie. I never thought he was good enough for her, but did he hurt my daughter? Guilt floods through me again and again. If we hadn’t argued, she wouldn’t have been with him today. If we hadn’t argued, I could have been there for her.
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good story
- By lou on 11-09-24
By: Emma Robinson
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The Child I Long For
- By: Caroline Finnerty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Emily is back in Ireland after nine long years away from home, when she sees him. Her ex-husband, Rob, holding hands with a five-year-old girl. A girl that should be hers. Over a decade before, Emily and Rob were exhausted but ecstatic new parents, delighting in the arrival of their longed-for baby daughter, Alannah. But tragedy was just a few weeks away, and in their unfathomable grief, Emily and Rob's marriage fell apart. Emily moved to New Zealand to get away – but returning to Dublin nearly a decade later for her mother's funeral, she finds herself face-to-face with her past.
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Intermezzo (Spanish Edition)
- By: Sally Rooney, Inga Pellisa Díaz - translator
- Narrated by: Roger Batalla, Víctor Gómez
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Peter, de treinta y pocos, es un carismático y renombrado abogado en Dublín de apariencia inquebrantable. Tras la muerte de su padre, lucha por mantener bajo control su caótica vida personal. Se medica para poder dormir y manejar la relación sentimental que mantiene con dos mujeres muy diferentes: su eterno primer amor, Sylvia, y Naomi, una estudiante universitaria que no se toma la vida muy enserio.
By: Sally Rooney, and others
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The Start of the Story
- By: Jane Lovering
- Narrated by: Rose Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Rowan Thorpe can be forgiven for living with one foot in the past. Since having to say goodbye far too young to the future she had planned, moving on still feels a daunting task. So, when historian Connor O’Keefe strides purposefully into her office and life, looking far too handsome for his own good and threatening to undermine the local legends she holds close to her heart, she is more than a little unsettled.
By: Jane Lovering
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Beneath the Lemon Trees
- By: Emma Burstall
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Heartbroken after the loss of a friend and the collapse of her marriage, Stella hopes that this trip to the idyllic Greek island of Crete will give her and her family a chance to heal. And when she first steps into the breath-taking Villa Ariadne, with its views over the azure waters and intoxicating scent of lemons, Stella’s troubles seem to melt away. Until the arrival of an old acquaintance, and an unwelcome revelation, threaten to undermine the peace at the villa, and Stella is forced to make a difficult decision.
By: Emma Burstall