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The Girl from Bletchley Park
- By: Kathleen McGurl
- Narrated by: Jessica Whitacker
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall145
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Performance135
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Story134
1942. Three years into the war, Pam turns down her hard-won place at Oxford University to become a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. There, she meets two young men, both keen to impress her, and Pam finds herself falling hard for one of them. But as the country’s future becomes more uncertain by the day, a tragic turn of events casts doubt on her choice. Present day. Julia is struggling to juggle her career, two children and a husband jealous of her success. Her brother presents her with the perfect distraction: forgotten photos of their grandmother as a young woman at Bletchley Park.
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Truly wonderful piece of work
- By Elizabeth McCully on 12-11-21
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The Girl from Bletchley Park
- Narrated by: Jessica Whitacker
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-11-21
- Language: English
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The Second Midnight
- By: Andrew Taylor
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance44
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Story44
1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. When Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Alfred is given an ultimatum by the Czech Resistance. They will arrange for him to return to England, but only if he leaves his son Hugh behind as collateral. Hugh is soon taken under the wing of a Nazi colonel - Helmuth Scholl.
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Excellent WWII spy thriller
- By Rex Schneider on 04-10-20
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The Second Midnight
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-11-19
- Language: English
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The Hidden Letters
- By: Lorna Cook
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever. As the storm clouds of war gather, Cordelia seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate. Handsome landscaper Isaac has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden. Isaac begins to secretly teach her how to cultivate the gardens, so when he and all the young men are called away to war, Cordelia takes over.
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An insight into a different time and war
- By Audible Enthusiast on 25-04-24
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The Hidden Letters
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- 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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The Pull of the Stars
- A gripping and deeply moving historical novel from the bestselling author of Room
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall795
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Performance702
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Story702
Three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Pull of the Stars is the Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room. 'An immersive, unforgettable fever-dream of a novel' – The Times The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be...
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incredible
- By Anonymous on 13-09-20
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The Pull of the Stars
- A gripping and deeply moving historical novel from the bestselling author of Room
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-07-20
- Language: English
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The Dressmakers of London
- By: Julia Kelly
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The author of the “enthralling” (Woman’s World) The Lost English Girl returns with a heartfelt new novel about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother’s dress shop in World War II London. Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s...
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Great book
- By Anonymous on 15-03-25
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The Dressmakers of London
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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One Moonlit Night
- The unmissable novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Spy
- By: Rachel Hore
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance165
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Story164
THE HIDDEN YEARS, the captivating new novel from million-copy bestselling author Rachel Hore, is out now. Loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, One Moonlit Night tells the captivating story of a husband and wife separated by secrets as well as by war. 'Brimming over with everything I love...
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An enjoyable audiobook
- By Christineb on 15-05-22
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One Moonlit Night
- The unmissable novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Spy
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall915
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Performance809
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Story808
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is...
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One of the best books I have ever read.
- By anne levine on 11-12-16
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Series: Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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The Passenger
- By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance86
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Story85
The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht. Berlin, November 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silberman must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht, and synagogues are being burnt, Jews rounded up and their businesses destroyed.
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Should be in every classroom
- By Amazon Customer on 16-12-21
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The Passenger
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-07-21
- Language: English
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Edge of the Grave
- By: Robbie Morrison
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance51
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Story50
Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2021 Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 'A mesmerizing debut. Early gangland Glasgow with the gloss razored off' – Peter James 'Peaky Blinders meets William...
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Eventually …. I lost the will to live
- By Gerard on 21-09-21
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Edge of the Grave
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Series: Jimmy Dreghorn
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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The Hidden Palace
- Daughters of War, Book 2
- By: Dinah Jefferies
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance42
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Story42
1923. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer’s job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request: to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before.
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DaughtersOfWar trilogy book2 is a feast for senses
- By Karla_bookishlife on 09-10-22
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The Hidden Palace
- Daughters of War, Book 2
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Series: The Daughters of War, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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The Girls Who Dared to Love
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
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
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The Girls Who Dared to Love
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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A Daughter’s Love
- The heartwarming new historical drama from the bestselling author of The Shipyard Girls series
- By: Nancy Revell
- Narrated by: Janine Birkett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Sunday Times bestselling author Nancy Revell. When Lucy’s estranged mother dies unexpectedly, her grief is overwhelming. Lucy was disowned when she married penniless horse-trainer Danny for love, leaving her blue-blooded family’s fortune in tatters. But...
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Worth the wait
- By Rosemary Taylor on 31-01-26
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A Daughter’s Love
- The heartwarming new historical drama from the bestselling author of The Shipyard Girls series
- Narrated by: Janine Birkett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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Treachery at Hursley Park House
- By: Claire Gradidge
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance42
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Story43
December 1942. As the war rages on, the accidental death of a young man is almost unremarkable. Except this young man was patrolling the grounds of Hursley Park House, where teams are designing crucial modifications to the Spitfire - and he was found clutching part of a blueprint. January 1943. Josephine Fox is given a code name and a mission as she is seconded to Hursley: uncover the network responsible for information leaks to the enemy.
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A rather disappointing 2nd book
- By R. L. Clark on 11-07-24
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Treachery at Hursley Park House
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Series: Josephine Fox, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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My Daughter’s Keeper
- By: Adiva Geffen
- Narrated by: Torre Puckett
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful…and short-lived. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic sentiments growing all over the country, Rachel and her newborn daughter Ilona are thrown into the Warsaw ghetto. Faced with reality, Rachel knows the only way to save her daughter is to smuggle her outside the ghetto.
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My Daughter’s Keeper
- Narrated by: Torre Puckett
- Series: World War II Brave Women Fiction, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-04-22
- Language: English
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A Wife's Courage
- By: Kitty Neale
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance57
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Story57
London, 1944. With bombs raining over London, keeping the Battersea Tavern open is no easy feat for owner Winnie Berry - but the community need the warmth and familiarity of the pub more than ever. After marriage, Maureen Fanning had moved out to Wandsworth with her bad-tempered husband Brancher. But when he loses both his job and their lodgings, the only people who will take them in are her kindly grandparents, Len and Renee. Getting a cleaning job at the Battersea Tavern is the least she can do to pay them back. It would all be fine...if it weren't for Brancher.
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-23
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A Wife's Courage
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Battersea Tavern, Book 3
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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Alvesdon
- A gripping WW2 historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Rachel Holland
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance27
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Brought to you by Penguin. The village of Alvesdon has been home to the Castells for generations. But the year is 1939 and the peace and tranquillity there is about to be shattered once more by the stormclouds of war in Europe. As three generations of the family gather, they must all face the...
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dreadful
- By Amazon Customer on 04-08-24
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Alvesdon
- A gripping WW2 historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- Narrated by: Rachel Holland
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses
- The Home Front Nurses, Book 2
- By: Rachel Brimble
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Freda knows the work she does on the home front is vital. Especially when bombs begin raining down on her beloved city of Bath and she and her friends find themselves feeling the effects of war like never before. Years of being told to be a ‘good girl’ by her mother, Freda has always done what’s been expected of her. But, even though she’s proud of her work nursing soldiers and victims of war, she can’t help but wonder if there’s more for her in life. And her secret desire to become a journalist feels increasingly like a calling she can’t resist.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it
- By Gra on 11-02-26
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Dangerous Days for the Home Front Nurses
- The Home Front Nurses, Book 2
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Series: The Home Front Nurses, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-02-25
- Language: English
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Big Lies in a Small Town
- By: Diane Chamberlain
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall189
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Performance172
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Story171
‘Fans of Jodi Picoult’s style will love how Diane Chamberlain writes’ – Candis. Big Lies in a Small Town, by the internationally bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, is a sweeping novel about two women connected by a painting that holds many dark secrets. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan...
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Two timelines, both equally interesting
- By Ninaminacat on 23-10-20
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Big Lies in a Small Town
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Victory Garden
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance105
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As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.
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Brilliant
- By Austen on 22-02-19
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The Victory Garden
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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