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War Babies
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Rachel Booker has a difficult start in life. When her father dies deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends meet but becomes so hard she has little room left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work at the open market in Birmingham, selling second-hand clothes or whatever they can find just to put a little food on the table. But the market has a silver lining: it's there that Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny.
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War Babies
- By Barrie on 29-06-19
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War Babies
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-02-15
- Language: English
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Homecoming for the Chocolate Girls
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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1946: The war might be over but for the Gilby family there are still battles to be fought at home. For Birmingham and the Gilby family the war years have been a time of great change. With husband, Len, having left her for another woman, Ann Gilby is finally free to follow her heart. While the neighbours may be scandalised by having a divorcee in their midst, Ann is determined to rise above the local gossip and make a happy home with her former sweetheart, the father of Ann's youngest child.
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Perfect!
- By Sakazoke on 31-08-24
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Homecoming for the Chocolate Girls
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 5
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- Language: English
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The Doorstep Child
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie has ever craved is a safe home and a normal existence. Her young eyes had seen so much, but this never tainted her spirit. If it wasn't for her best friend, Gary, and a friendly dog called Whisky, Evie might never have made it to her 16th birthday.
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Spellbinding - Couldn't Stop Listening!
- By bodriz on 15-10-17
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The Doorstep Child
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-07-17
- Language: English
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Meet Me Under the Clock
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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1940: As war closes in and the bombs fall, on the Homefront, two sisters must find their place in a new world of ‘men's' work, in which a telegraph can break your heart and nothing in the future is certain. Growing up in Birmingham, Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse were always like chalk and cheese. As young women, while Sylvia dreams of her forthcoming life married to fiancé Ian. Audrey can't bear the thought of being tied down by marriage and children.
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Enthralling!
- By Liz on 01-11-14
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Meet Me Under the Clock
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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A Hopscotch Summer
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham. As long as everything is all right at home with her Ma and Pa, her little sister Joyce and brother Sid, then life is good. But after Em's mother, Cynthia, has her baby she just doesn't seem to be able to cope.
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easy listen
- By Sue on 14-05-15
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A Hopscotch Summer
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: Hopscotch Summer, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: English
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Soldier Girl
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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A sequel to The Hopscotch Summer. Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and her drunken mother. Though she has grown into a tall, beautiful woman, Molly is haunted by terrible family secrets. When she is found lying drunk in a gutter, Molly reaches a turning point. She decides to escape by joining the army as an ATS girl.
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Brilliant - NOT a typical romance book - Recommend
- By bodriz on 31-01-18
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Soldier Girl
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: Hopscotch Summer, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-03-14
- Language: English
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The Bells of Bournville Green
- Chocolate Girls, Book 2
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Pretty 17-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962.
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Another Great story
- By Pauline on 04-09-20
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The Bells of Bournville Green
- Chocolate Girls, Book 2
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-02-14
- Language: English
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Girls in Tin Hats
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Two very different girls from this tight-knit community join up as ARP Wardens to do their bit for the home front. Violet Simms lives with her controlling, widowed mother who runs the local pawn shop. At just 20-years-old, Violet longs for friendship, love and escape. It seems her dreams might come true until tragedy strikes on one of the very worst nights of the Birmingham Blitz. Grace Templeton is the eldest in her family of 10 children. Spirited Grace is determined never to become burdened by child bearing and drudgery like her mother.
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Great saga.....realistic and well researched
- By wen-di on 30-07-20
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Girls in Tin Hats
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-04-20
- Language: English
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Sisters of Gold
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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Sisters Margaret and Annie lost their mother years ago; they long for her every day. Their frightfully protective father keeps the girls close, but he can't protect them forever.... When a scandal rocks the family, the girls are forced to leave their home. The girls flee to Birmingham's jewellery quarter to stay with the one person they can rely on - Uncle Goldsmith. Annie takes up work at a nearby factory, where she learns to forge cutlery, and Margaret is employed as a chain maker.
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A great listen
- By Amazon Customer on 17-04-18
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Sisters of Gold
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Series: Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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The Women of Lilac Street
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Lilac Street was a crowded, sooty-faced, workaday place, the houses full and the streets teeming with children. One thing it was, without a doubt, was full of life. Birmingham, almost a decade after the end of the Great War, and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of troubles.... Rose Southgate is trapped, bringing up her daughter in a loveless marriage. Shy and isolated, she tries to make the best of her life, until she meets a man who changes everything.
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Brilliant
- By CuckooSuzie on 13-05-16
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The Women of Lilac Street
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-02-14
- Language: English
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Family of Women
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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Family of Women is the story of three generations of women. Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war. Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her.
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This is no Lena Kennedy
- By Rie tay on 31-08-21
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Family of Women
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-01-14
- Language: English
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The Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 1
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Frances Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work: and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at 19 and, after losing her child from the marriage, she faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is handed into her care.
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Great local story
- By polly on 29-11-22
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The Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 1
- Narrated by: Frances Barber
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-06-07
- Language: English
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The Narrowboat Girl
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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Maryann Nelson's widowed mother, Flo, sees the opportunity to better her family by marrying the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man, Maryann and her sister, Sal, soon discover that he has another side to him. For Sal, it is too much to bear and she escapes, leaving Maryann to take revenge on Griffin. The chance of a new life opens up when she befriends Joel Batholomew, who works on the canal. Aboard his narrowboat, she finds herself falling in love with her new life.
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very upsetting but excellent writing
- By Elaine on 17-03-10
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The Narrowboat Girl
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: The Narrowboat Girl, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 02-07-07
- Language: English
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Water Gypsies
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband, Joel, and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the Esther Jane. But the backbreaking work and constant childbearing take their toll on Maryann, and the tragic loss of her old friend, Nancy, followed by a further pregnancy lead her to a desperate act which nearly costs her her life.
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WOW
- By Debbie on 24-01-19
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Water Gypsies
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: The Narrowboat Girl, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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Birmingham Rose
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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For Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham, life is hard. But through her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle-class Moseley, she learns to aspire to a different and better existence. But life seldom follows dreams, and after losing a love she has fought hard for, and after travelling in Italy, she returns to Birmingham with her hopes shattered. But Rose's powerful spirit will not be defeated.
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I've read better
- By Frankie on 01-12-21
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Birmingham Rose
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Birmingham, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-07-07
- Language: English
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Miss Purdy's Class
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
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In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horrified, but she has the support of her fiance, a recently ordained clergyman. Her early weeks in Birmingham are an eye-opener: at the school she faces a class of 52 children, some of whose homes are among Birmingham's very poorest.
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heart wrenching
- By David Partridge on 17-02-24
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Miss Purdy's Class
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-12-14
- Language: English
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All the Days of Our Lives
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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It is 1946: The war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures.... Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent, yet hungry for love, she is easily taken in by male charm and is left outcast and alone with her young son. Emma Brown has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her husband Norm to return and meet the son he has never seen. But she soon finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of problems.
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Good moving story
- By pamela on 10-08-14
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All the Days of Our Lives
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: Hopscotch Summer, Book 3
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 30-01-14
- Language: English
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Now the War Is Over
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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The Second World War has finally come to a close. Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Booker's life. Her husband has returned, and the family that struggled for survival throughout the uncertain war years is now together. But family life settles into a routine, and Rachel, unsatisfied, starts to yearn for more.
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Amazing story
- By Jane Bryder on 07-03-19
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Now the War Is Over
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-06-16
- Language: English
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Birmingham Blitz
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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August 1939. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, would love to have a proper happy family like her Italian friend, Teresa. But Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up and the strangely liberating effect it all has on her mother.... Under Birmingham skies darkened by blackout, Genie shares her fears and hopes with Teresa, keeps her spirits up with her nan and glamorous auntie Lil, and tries to hold her family together. And amid it all, she discovers love....
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Birmingham blitz
- By colin ralph on 01-04-18
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Birmingham Blitz
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Series: Birmingham, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 3
- By: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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While her husband and daughter work at the Cadbury's Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her hands full at home with her youngest, Martin, and other daughter Sheila, newly returned home with baby Elaine. With Sheila's husband away doing his bit in the RAF, Ann knows she should be grateful to have all her children safe under one roof. But she can't help but fear for their uncertain future as bombs fall ever closer to her Birmingham home.
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really lovely read
- By steve on 09-05-22
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Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 3
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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