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The Fifteen Streets

By: Catherine Cookson
Narrated by: Anne Dover
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Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject poverty, confined to the hardships of the Fifteen Streets. Labouring on the city's docks and trying to keep his loved ones safe from the drunken wrath of his father and brother, this is the only way of life he knows. Then John O'Brien meets his sister's teacher.

Mary Llewellyn is beautiful and elegant, wealthy and privileged. She wants to help the less fortunate through education, in the hope it will enable them to escape their desolate lives. From a casual conversation over tea grows a rare love, but fate steps in when John is accused of fathering the child of a local girl and Mary's parents forbid her to see John. The couple begin to think that gulf between them cannot be bridged....

©1952 The Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust (P)2023 Magna Story Sound 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance
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Master storyteller, beautifully read. The reader’s voice and character interpretation were just right for this story. A tale to lead one to reflect on the challenges of life from different perspectives.

An historic reminder of life’s struggles

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