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(0)Sheila Newberry
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Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The Cambridge Fens, 1938. Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect. But things are not always as they seem. When Rosanna's new baby brother is born, tragedy strikes the family. And, with the outbreak of World War II just around the corner, and a move to the Norfolk countryside, Rosanna's life is changed forever....
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Alone at Christmas, will she find somewhere to call home? No more than 18 years old, alone and heavily pregnant, Kathleen stumbles through the snow, desperate for somewhere to rest her weary head. As the Christmas bells chime around her, she glimpses a man through the haze, before collapsing into his arms. On a farm in the beautiful Kent countryside, Jessie and her family take Kathleen in as their own. But little do they know that there's a baby on...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Suffolk, 1925. At only 16 years old, May Moon travels to West Wick, Suffolk to become the local Punch and Judy girl. Determined to fulfil her dead father's wishes, and to continue his business, May has her work cut out for her during her summer on the beach. Staying with a local family, she not only enjoys the silvery sand and sunshine, she also experiences first love, partings and reunions. And, before long, realises that performing might be in her...
Author
Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After an unhappy experience in her first job, 16 year old Elinor Odell takes the little train home to her family one Christmas Eve. But she soon realises that her idyllic childhood has come to an end and that everything is set to change.
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Language
English
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Suffolk, 1914. Twelve-year-old Mattie and her little sister Evie lead an idyllic life in the countryside, exploring the meadows and picking watercress in the streams. Living with their family in Plough Cottage, little do they know that this perfect childhood won't last. With World War I just around the corner, the country will soon be thrown into turmoil ... As the years pass, the girls go on to live very different lives. Mattie travels to Plymouth...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Wales, 1883. Young Ruth Owen, a talented musician with a scholarship to a prestigious music school, has a sparkling career ahead of her. But after a run-in with her mysterious tutor she flees to London, leaving everything and everyone behind. London, 1897. Fourteen years later, Ruth, now married with two children, finds herself struggling for money and a place to live. Left with no other option, they decide to return to Wales and live on a canal boat....
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
At the start of the Second World War, ten-year-old Georgia has to leave her close-knit family in London's Docklands on an evacuation train bound for the dubious safety of an east coast village. Phoebe takes in the child. As Georgia becomes involved in the complicated love lives of Phoebe and others, she unwittingly courts danger.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Zaffre audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
London's East End, 1890. Growing up in poverty, Hester Stainsby toils day and night in the laundry room of Poplar Hospital to help support her family; her father Fred, her younger twin siblings, Harry and Polly and cantankerous Granny Garter. When Fred is badly injured in an accident at the docks, the family's fortunes take a turn for the worse. Determined to make a better life for herself and her loved ones, Hester trains to be a nurse, throwing...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
London, 1932. Number five Kitchener Avenue heralds the start of a new life for the Hope family. For pregnant Miriam it is a warm, safe environment to bring up her child. For her sister, fourteen-year-old Barbara, it means independence ... and boys. And for Fred it provides the security he craves for his young family. In the lead up to Christmas, the Hopes settle in and start to make happy memories in their new home. But World War II is around the...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Sunny grew up in the Mother and Baby Home on Grove Lane, London. The daughter of a wartime nurse and a Polish pilot, she was abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth and taken in by Nan, the warm and gentle proprietor of the home in which she was born. Never having known her parents, Sunny has always felt like she doesn't quite fit in, but at 16-years-old she is ready to find her place in the world. Heading out to start her first job, she finally...