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The Seven Sisters
- The Seven Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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The first audiobook in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley, read by Tuppence Middleton....
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Great story!
- By rejnh on 25-10-2021
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The Shadow Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 3
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Fiona Button
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world....
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Beautiful understated character
- By Amazon Customer on 08-05-2024
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The Sun Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 6
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Weruche Opia
- Length: 26 hrs and 14 mins
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To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....
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Absolutely Brilliant!!!!
- By Christine Curtis on 26-07-2020
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The Storm Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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The second audiobook in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally best-selling author Lucinda Riley....
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Is/ Was Pa Salt a Master Spy?
- By Myles on 19-05-2024
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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
- The Seven Sisters, Book 8
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 24 hrs and 59 mins
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From the Sunday Times number-one best-selling author Lucinda Riley, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt draws the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters to an unforgettable conclusion....
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Loved It
- By ukjenp on 16-05-2023
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The Lost Duke of Wyndham
- By: Julia Quinn
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm, responsible for an ancient heritage and the livelihood of hundreds. But when he is recognized as the long-lost son of the House of Wyndham, his carefree life is over....
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 14-04-2022
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The Seven Sisters
- The Seven Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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The first audiobook in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley, read by Tuppence Middleton....
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Great story!
- By rejnh on 25-10-2021
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The Shadow Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 3
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Fiona Button
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world....
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Beautiful understated character
- By Amazon Customer on 08-05-2024
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The Sun Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 6
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Weruche Opia
- Length: 26 hrs and 14 mins
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To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....
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Absolutely Brilliant!!!!
- By Christine Curtis on 26-07-2020
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The Storm Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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The second audiobook in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally best-selling author Lucinda Riley....
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Is/ Was Pa Salt a Master Spy?
- By Myles on 19-05-2024
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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
- The Seven Sisters, Book 8
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 24 hrs and 59 mins
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From the Sunday Times number-one best-selling author Lucinda Riley, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt draws the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters to an unforgettable conclusion....
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Loved It
- By ukjenp on 16-05-2023
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The Lost Duke of Wyndham
- By: Julia Quinn
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm, responsible for an ancient heritage and the livelihood of hundreds. But when he is recognized as the long-lost son of the House of Wyndham, his carefree life is over....
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 14-04-2022
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The Midnight Rose
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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In the heyday of the British Raj, 11-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of rich Indian royalty....
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Irresistible suspense!
- By Jacqueline Benz on 22-11-2020
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The Love Letter
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Camilla Rockley
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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1995, London. When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of 95 he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family but also a secret....
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Not sure what the big secret was
- By Anonymous User on 20-03-2023
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The Butterfly Room
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heartbreaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is the new spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times best seller Lucinda Riley....
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Beautiful as a butterfly
- By Adrianna Strafella Coyte-King on 13-05-2019
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The Summer Garden
- Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 30 hrs and 2 mins
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Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals....
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The end to my favourite love story
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2024
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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Held my all the way to the end
- By Donna Skelton on 21-09-2020
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Tatiana and Alexander
- The Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander....
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Action, Love and War
- By Tilly on 27-04-2024
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Hither Page
- Page & Sommers, Book 1
- By: Cat Sebastian
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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James Sommers returned from the war with his nerves in tatters. All he wants is to retreat to the quiet village of his childhood and enjoy the boring, predictable life of a country doctor....
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Wartime Brides
- Wives and Lovers, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Bristol - 1945. The war has ended; the men are returning home to their loved ones, but for some, things have changed....
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The Stolen Hours
- Wild Isle, Book 2
- By: Karen Swan
- Narrated by: Paula Masterton
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets....
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Loved this book
- By Notgood191 on 03-04-2024
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Wife to Order
- An Australian Outback Romance
- By: Lucy Walker
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Carey is immediately attracted to the handsome yet reserved cattle station owner. But Oliver seems more interested in a practical business arrangement than a true love match....
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Delightful
- By Yvonne on 03-04-2024
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The Forgotten Garden
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Anna Skellern
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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A lost child: On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace....
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The Girls in the Attic
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question everything he thought he knew....
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sad, brilliant from the first page to the last
- By danielle on 29-11-2021
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The Dartmoor Girl
- Devonshire Sagas, Book 8
- By: Tania Crosse
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Dartmoor, 1952. When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother, she finds herself at a crossroads: go to a children's home or leave the bright lights of London to live with her estranged father in the wilds of Dartmoor....
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The Girl at Holly Cottage
- Devonshire Sagas, Book 9
- By: Tania Crosse
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Plymouth, 1954. The future seems rosy for Plymouth schoolgirl Anna Millington, as she prepares for teacher training college. But Anna's life is not what it seems....
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The Diamond Brooch
- The Celtic Brooch, Book 7
- By: Katherine Lowry Logan
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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ESPN baseball analyst Amy Spalding is swept back in time by a magical brooch and finds herself in 1909 New York City. With only the clothes on her back, a phenomenal memory for New York Giants players and stats, and a brooch that won't take her back home....
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Great story
- By Krystina Perry on 20-01-2018
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The Secret Sister
- By: Jan Baynham
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Wales, 1943. Sara Lewis should be heartbroken when her husband doesn't return from war. But he was never the kind husband she hoped for. And now she's stuck with her cruel mother-in-law on the family farm. Sara must do what is best for her young son....
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The Royal Librarian
- By: Daisy Wood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside....
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Still Glides the Stream
- By: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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When Will Hastie finally decides to retire from the military and return home to Scotland, he intends to settle down on his family estate and learn to become a farmer....
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The Runaway Girl
- An Australian Outback Romance
- By: Lucy Walker
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Jenny's family think pastoral agent John Downing would make the perfect husband for her. But Jenny knows that she is not in love with him and never will be....
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Heaven and Hell for the Tobacco Girls
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of modern medicine. She’s also torn between family loyalty, her new career and Lyndon O’Neill, the love of her life....
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Coronation Wives
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Bristol - 1953. It’s Coronation Year. A new beginning in the aftermath of war, but there are still battles to be fought and secrets to be kept....
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The Dressmaker of Paris
- 'A story of loss and escape, redemption and forgiveness. Fans of Lucinda Riley will adore it' (Sunday Express)
- By: Georgia Kaufmann
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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A beautifully written, sweeping historical women's fiction novel that spans both time and the globe as we follow one woman's journey from simple country girl to global fashion icon....
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Terrific story, beautifully narrated.
- By Kindle Customer on 14-11-2022
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Courtney's War
- By: Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Paris, 1939. Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives....
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brilliant as always
- By Teena on 02-10-2018
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The Dressmaker's Gift
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets....
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Narrator hard to listen to.
- By Sue on 09-03-2023
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'You're everything to me. I'd have to lose my life before I'd lose you.' This is the vow Silas made to Cathleen on the day he asks her to marry him. Throughout their childhood their love has grown stronger and now, in 1900, they start to plan a life together. But a jealous woman is determined to ruin their happiness and uses Silas's father – a good and honest man – to do so, forcing him to make an impossible sacrifice. As a dutiful son, Silas has no choice but to obey his father, and Cathleen must pay the bitter price.
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Bill Stanhope a young Squadron Leader in Pathfinder Force Bomber Command in World War 2, with a great deal of luck, has survived a staggering number of missions. Falling in love with Jane Curtis, a nurse tending his wounded Observer, Harry Watt, he proposes, expecting his next operation to be his last. Fifty percent never came back from the terror-filled skies over war-torn Europe. They marry. She had fallen for him too. Four days later, his Lancaster is shot up, a doomed fireball.
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The Nurse's War
- Victoria's War, Book 1
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria Bahani, the privileged seventeen-year-old, daughter of the Rajah of Marpur and an English woman, has always believed she would marry an Englishman. And when she meets Captain Henry Hindley-Jones she knows he’s exactly the kind of man she’s been thinking of. But when war breaks out everything changes for Victoria. With Henry away fighting, Victoria must try and find her own path in life and also do her duty for her king and country. Signing up to be a nurse in the Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Corp, Victoria must leave behind the country she loves for a life of danger and duty.
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The Nurse's Homecoming
- Victoria's War, Book 2
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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With her first husband dead and the war still ferocious, Victoria finds herself nursing injured soldiers on the Burma front. There she meets charismatic American, Captain Taylor King and, impulsively, marries a man she barely knows. But when Victoria becomes pregnant with his child, she must leave the only security she knows to start a new life as Henry’s wife in Boston. But Taylor is not the loving, gentle husband Victoria hoped for and the arrival of an unexpected visitor changes their lives forever.
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War Baby
- Sweet Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...
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Home Sweet Home
- The Sweet Sisters, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Frances Sweet can’t really remember her real parents. Brought up by her uncle, her cousins Ruby and Mary have always treated her like their little sister. As the war continues to keep her cousins separated from the men they love – Frances is growing up fast enough to catch the eye of dashing American soldier Declan. But she also has a greater longing – to find the mother who abandoned her years before.
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A Wedding for the Bomber Girls
- Bomber Command Girls, Book 2
- By: Vicki Beeby
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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At RAF Fenthorpe, instrument repairer Thea is helping her sister, Pearl, plan her wedding alongside fellow WAAF and maid of honour Jenny. A misfit amongst the women on the base, though, Thea is struggling to get others onboard. When Flight Sergeant Fitz makes a point of befriending and standing by her, sparks fly between the two. And when Fitz’s crew member, Jack, faces being stripped of his rank due to cowardice, Thea throws herself into seeking justice and support for him.