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Charity

By: Lesley Pearse
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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 Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed forever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby, she soon realises just how alone she really is.

Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to 1960s London and begins to forge a new life.

©1995 Lesley Pearse (P)2007 Isis Publishing Fiction Historical Fiction
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I didnt enjoy this book as much as others I have listened to. I found the readers 'mans' voice a little off putting.
Being a child of the 60's, I did enjoy the references to the era for which it was written for.

Another lovely story

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Story itself was ok but the narrator's voice was wrong for the characters, no tonal changes for different ones...one woman sounded Scottish and South African in the same sentence and all the male's sounded the same which was hard when the likeable ones sounded the same as the unlikeable.

Struggled with the narrator.

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I dearly wanted a part 2...how life was for Rob and Chairty. Would they try to find Daniel?

Enjoyed this story in parts

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Ridiculous. A lifetime of misfortune and misery happens within ten years to Charity, to the point I was rolling my eyes at the absurdity. Charity is a magnet. to the horrors the world has to offer.

A sharper pencil should be been used by the editor. The narrator was overly pompous

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