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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
- By: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance156
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Story154
How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful. There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling...
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Marvellous tale for young and old
- By Sigrin on 24-04-20
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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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Charlotte Sometimes
- By: Penelope Farmer
- Narrated by: Hannah Gordon
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance60
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Story61
It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge, dark cedar tree! Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years... A classic time travel mystery from acclaimed author Penelope Farmer.
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Bittersweet story
- By Katharine on 02-07-14
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Charlotte Sometimes
- Narrated by: Hannah Gordon
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 04-02-13
- Language: English
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War Horse
- By: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall237
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Performance158
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Story159
Michael Morpurgo’s classic tale, capturing the power of the human spirit. Beautifully performed by Dan Stevens, ‘War Horse’ has taken the world by storm. First published back in 1982, the book was adapted to the stage and was performed at the National Theatre and on Broadway. At the...
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War Horse
- By Duchess on 01-08-12
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War Horse
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-01-10
- Language: English
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
- By: Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
- Narrated by: Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance20
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Story20
Read by Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner, and Matthew Broderick Here are the immortals of Olympus—the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece—as freshly described as if they were alive today. Mighty Zeus with his fistful of thunderbolts; mischievous little Hermes; grey-eyed Athena...
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Why are there no chapter titles
- By gordon on 10-04-23
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
- Narrated by: Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Turner
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 14-11-12
- Language: English
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Carrie's War
- 50th Anniversary Luxury Edition
- By: Nina Bawden, Alan Marks
- Narrated by: Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance20
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Story20
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY EMMA CARROLL 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'What a deep, dark, deceptively simple, brilliant novel it is' EMMA CARROLL 'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, and it doesn't sentimentalise war'...
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wonderful!
- By Callie on 23-04-23
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Carrie's War
- 50th Anniversary Luxury Edition
- Narrated by: Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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Little House on the Prairie
- Little House, Book 3
- By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Narrated by: Cherry Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance91
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Story91
The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon...
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Wonderful
- By Chloe R on 07-07-18
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Little House on the Prairie
- Little House, Book 3
- Narrated by: Cherry Jones
- Series: Little House, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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Eliza Rose
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Bloomsbury presents Eliza Rose by Lucy Worsley, read by Imogen Wilde The captivating debut children's novel from popular television historian Lucy Worsley is an exciting and charming glimpse behind the scenes of the Tudor court. I would often wonder about my future husband. A knight? A duke? A...
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Really enjoyed this book
- By Tricky on 16-09-25
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Eliza Rose
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Friend or Foe
- By: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrated by: Will Welch
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance66
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Story65
From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes "Friend or Foe". Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the countryside. From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes "Friend or Foe". Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the...
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Wonderful feel-good factor book
- By Queenie on 20-09-17
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Friend or Foe
- Narrated by: Will Welch
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 23-01-12
- Language: English
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Street Child
- Collins Modern Classics
- By: Berlie Doherty
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall123
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Performance93
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Story92
An unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes. When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes, choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Struggling to survive, Jim finally finds some friends...only to be snatched away and made to work for the remorselessly cruel Grimy Nick, constantly guarded by his vicious dog, Snipe. Will Jim ever manage to be free?
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Amazing app I love it❤️
- By discerning reader on 27-12-16
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Street Child
- Collins Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 16-06-16
- Language: English
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The First Four Years
- By: Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Narrated by: Cherry Jones
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance31
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Story31
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must...
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Laura
- By lucylucy on 07-03-21
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The First Four Years
- Narrated by: Cherry Jones
- Series: Little House, Book 9
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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Clockwork
- By: Philip Pullman
- Narrated by: Anton Lester
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance30
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Story30
Brought to you by Penguin. Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ... A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil ... Wind up these characters...
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So good
- By Margaret Elliot on 14-01-26
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Clockwork
- Narrated by: Anton Lester
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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An Unlikely Spy
- By: Terry Deary
- Narrated by: Sarah Ovens
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
Bloomsbury presents An Unlikely Spy by Terry Deary, read by Sarah Ovens. From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps ____________________ This exciting historical adventure brings the Second World...
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Great story great narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 17-05-21
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An Unlikely Spy
- Narrated by: Sarah Ovens
- Series: The Silver Hand
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-11-19
- Language: English
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Then
- Felix and Zelda, Book 2
- By: Morris Gleitzman
- Narrated by: Morris Gleitzman
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance45
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Story44
Felix and Zelda - they escaped from the Nazis, but how long can they now survive when there are so many people ready to hand them over for a reward? Thanks to the courage of a kind, brave woman they are able to hide for a time in the open, but Felix knows he has a distinguishing feature that identifies him as a Jew and that it is only a matter of time before he is discovered, which will mean death for them all. Even though he promised Zelda he would never leave her, he knows he has to, before it is too late....
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Great
- By amelia on 29-03-17
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Then
- Felix and Zelda, Book 2
- Narrated by: Morris Gleitzman
- Series: Once, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-10-10
- Language: English
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The Thieves of Ostia
- Book 1
- By: Caroline Lawrence
- Narrated by: Michael Praed
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Abridged
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Overall43
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Performance33
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Story32
The first in Caroline Lawrence's internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series. Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she and her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia...
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THE GOLD🛡💳💸💵🏆🏅💎💍💶💷💴⚡💰👑
- By B on 10-10-25
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The Thieves of Ostia
- Book 1
- Narrated by: Michael Praed
- Series: Roman Mysteries [abridged], Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 25-07-07
- Language: English
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The Red Necklace
- By: Sally Gardner
- Narrated by: Tom Hiddleston
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Abridged
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Overall261
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Performance226
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Story221
The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; and Count Kalliovski, Grand Master of a secret society, who has half the aristocracy in thrall to him, and wants Yann dead. Yann is spirited away to London but...
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Narration
- By jessica harby on 28-08-18
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The Red Necklace
- Narrated by: Tom Hiddleston
- Series: The French Revolution, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 30-10-07
- Language: English
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War Games
- By: Alan Gratz
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Evie can't believe she's made it to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. After fleeing the Oklahoma Dust Bowl for golden California, Evie's family is still poor and reeling from devastating losses. She could have never guessed that the sport she took up to escape her reality would lead to this. Now, she's competing in gymnastics on Team USA, with some of the greatest athletes in the world like track and field star Jesse Owens. But all is not as it seems in Berlin, a city now ruled by the Nazis and their tyrannical leader, Adolf Hitler.
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War Games
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-10-25
- Language: English
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I, Coriander
- By: Sally Gardner
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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Overall70
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Performance50
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Story48
The 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 mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen.
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Great sense of time and place
- By Nicholas W. N. Jones on 12-07-07
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I, Coriander
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-05-06
- Language: English
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Party Shoes
- By: Noel Streatfeild
- Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance1
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Brought to you by Penguin. A perfect companion to Ballet Shoes, Circus Shoes, Theatre Shoes and Tennis Shoes, this family war-time story was first published in 1946, reissued now in A Puffin Book. There's great excitement when an unexpected parcel arrives for Selina. A beautiful long...
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Party Shoes
- Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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Maybe
- Felix and Zelda, Book 6
- By: Morris Gleitzman
- Narrated by: Morris Gleitzman
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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The next compelling chapter in the life of Felix, hero of the award-winning Once, Then, After, Soon and Now. 1946. Europe is in ruins. Millions of people dream of finding happiness somewhere else. Fourteen-year-old Felix is one of them. When he's offered a journey to Australia, he seizes the opportunity. So does someone very dear to him, even though she wasn't actually invited.
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addictive
- By Jason Deane on 21-07-24
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Maybe
- Felix and Zelda, Book 6
- Narrated by: Morris Gleitzman
- Series: Once, Book 6
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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The Case of the Girl in Grey
- By: Jordan Stratford
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency was supposed to be a secret constabulary, but after the success of their first case, all of London knows that Lady Ada and Mary are the girls to go to if you have a problem. Their new case is a puzzle indeed. It involves a horrible hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a suspiciously slippery servant. But Mary's stumbled onto a mystery of her own. She spotted a ghostly girl in a grey gown dashing through the park. A girl who is the spitting image of their new client.
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The Case of the Girl in Grey
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Series: The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 26-01-16
- Language: English
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