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(0)Charlotte Worthing
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Marina is adopted. She's always known this - but the circumstances of her birth remain a mystery. Baby Blue, the newspapers nicknamed her at the time, after she'd been found wrapped in a blue shawl, in the hallway of a large, shared house in London. 24 Harrington Gardens. That was the house. And it's still standing now Marina is an adult; still split into flats. And one of them is to let. Of course, Marina knows that the chances of her uncovering...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
October 1943. Nancy Dalton, working at the RAF base at Scampton in Lincolnshire, has been holding vigil for the Lancaster bomber pilots whose missions seem endless. But her watchfulness has not prevented her own pilot brother from failing to return. In the midst of mourning him, fresh recruits arrive to continue the war effort, among them charismatic Canadian Steve Allard. The months ahead will be long and hard, with danger a constant companion, and...
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As Christmas 1926 approaches, the Forbes family are preparing to host a celebration at Eden Hall. 18-year-old Daisy is preoccupied by a sense of change in the air. Overnight, her relationship with Stephen Jessop, the housekeeper's son, has shifted and every encounter seems fraught with tension. Before the festivities are over, Daisy has received a declaration of love, a proposal and a kiss - from three different men. Unable to bear the confusion she...
Author
Publisher
Avid Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This thriller evokes 1973 Moscow and a world of diplomacy and counter-espionage. It's 1973 and Martha has been sent down from Cambridge for distributing left-wing leaflets and doing no work. To escape parental disapproval, she marries her friend Kit, posted to Moscow by the diplomatic service. Kit is gay, so having a wife could keep him safe. In Moscow, Martha struggles to make sense of a difficult by fascinating new world.
Author
Publisher
Rosa Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Singleton Dot Riley's grandmother, Nanny Flo, is on her deathbed, surrounded by family and distraught at the thought of Dot being all alone in the world. Desperate to make Flo's final moments happy ones, Dot invents a boyfriend - plumping in panic for her childhood friend, Felix, a firm favourite of Flo, but whom Dot hasn't actually seen for 15 years. But when Flo makes an unexpected recovery a few weeks before a family wedding, Dot is faced with...