Try free for 30 days
-
The Little Christmas Waif
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $16.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also picked
-
The Forgotten Widow's Christmas
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Joff Manning
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tilly Barton can’t wait for Christmas - it’s her favorite time of the year. Her seafaring husband, Ray, is due home any moment now. Soon, she’ll be baking gingerbread and decorating the tree with her three young children. But, everything changes when Ray is tragically lost at sea. Tilly finds herself a widow with three little ones to think of in the brutality of a London winter. They’re cast into a turmoil of hardship, with Tilly struggling and scraping to keep her little family alive. Christmases come and go, bringing little joy with them.
-
The Invisible Daughter
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fae Carter has been hiding all her life. First, her mother keeps her hidden away from the angry, violent man who owns their home. He calls Mama his favorite secret, but Fae knows he's not her father. Fae has to hide whenever he comes because he hates her so much that he hurts her if he finds her. Mama sends Fae to go and live with her grandparents in the country.
-
The Fishmonger's Daughter
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Regina Fae
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abbie Hughes lives in a tiny, rundown tenement with her crippled father and younger sister. Her mother is long dead, and her brother has gone out to sea. Abbie and her sister, Gail, eke out a living by selling posies and broth on the street corners. It isn’t much, but at least they aren’t starving, and they have each other; in truth, their little tenement is filled with love.
-
-
Ok
- By christine walter on 06-10-2021
-
The Cotton Mill Orphan
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Laura Greaves
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Juliette Purcell has never known anything beyond her small, miserable world: the tiny tenement where she lives with her mother and brother; the grimy street filled with terrifying homeless men; and the market square where they scrounge scraps of food. Her mother, a washerwoman, works incessantly, yet Juliette and her brother Reuben often go hungry.
-
The Ragged Seamstress
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: S D Cousins
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As a parlor maid, Blanche Eplett is invisible to everyone in her life…except for Ludwig Turner, the rakishly handsome master of the house. When Ludwig’s interest in Blanche becomes something more amorous, she finds herself pregnant with his child and soon gives birth to a little girl named May. At first, Ludwig is there to care for them both. But when tragedy strikes, Blanche and May are thrown out onto the streets. Blanche will do anything to care for May and to protect the child’s kind and loving heart—a heart soon enamored by a fellow street urchin named Taylor Harris.
-
Falsely Accused Widow
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the wake of losing both her parents, young Joanna believed Bernard Woods was the solution to all her problems. It’s only after her baby, Della, is born that Joanna discovers Bernard is a scoundrel and a drunkard, more interested in gambling than in caring for his little family. When Bernard’s past catches up to him and Joanna finds him dead, police suspect she was the one who drove the knife into his heart. She has no choice but to take her baby and flee into the perilous streets of Victorian London, where children are a commodity and women a convenience…
-
The Forgotten Widow's Christmas
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Joff Manning
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tilly Barton can’t wait for Christmas - it’s her favorite time of the year. Her seafaring husband, Ray, is due home any moment now. Soon, she’ll be baking gingerbread and decorating the tree with her three young children. But, everything changes when Ray is tragically lost at sea. Tilly finds herself a widow with three little ones to think of in the brutality of a London winter. They’re cast into a turmoil of hardship, with Tilly struggling and scraping to keep her little family alive. Christmases come and go, bringing little joy with them.
-
The Invisible Daughter
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fae Carter has been hiding all her life. First, her mother keeps her hidden away from the angry, violent man who owns their home. He calls Mama his favorite secret, but Fae knows he's not her father. Fae has to hide whenever he comes because he hates her so much that he hurts her if he finds her. Mama sends Fae to go and live with her grandparents in the country.
-
The Fishmonger's Daughter
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Regina Fae
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abbie Hughes lives in a tiny, rundown tenement with her crippled father and younger sister. Her mother is long dead, and her brother has gone out to sea. Abbie and her sister, Gail, eke out a living by selling posies and broth on the street corners. It isn’t much, but at least they aren’t starving, and they have each other; in truth, their little tenement is filled with love.
-
-
Ok
- By christine walter on 06-10-2021
-
The Cotton Mill Orphan
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Laura Greaves
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Juliette Purcell has never known anything beyond her small, miserable world: the tiny tenement where she lives with her mother and brother; the grimy street filled with terrifying homeless men; and the market square where they scrounge scraps of food. Her mother, a washerwoman, works incessantly, yet Juliette and her brother Reuben often go hungry.
-
The Ragged Seamstress
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: S D Cousins
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As a parlor maid, Blanche Eplett is invisible to everyone in her life…except for Ludwig Turner, the rakishly handsome master of the house. When Ludwig’s interest in Blanche becomes something more amorous, she finds herself pregnant with his child and soon gives birth to a little girl named May. At first, Ludwig is there to care for them both. But when tragedy strikes, Blanche and May are thrown out onto the streets. Blanche will do anything to care for May and to protect the child’s kind and loving heart—a heart soon enamored by a fellow street urchin named Taylor Harris.
-
Falsely Accused Widow
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Charles Robert Fox
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the wake of losing both her parents, young Joanna believed Bernard Woods was the solution to all her problems. It’s only after her baby, Della, is born that Joanna discovers Bernard is a scoundrel and a drunkard, more interested in gambling than in caring for his little family. When Bernard’s past catches up to him and Joanna finds him dead, police suspect she was the one who drove the knife into his heart. She has no choice but to take her baby and flee into the perilous streets of Victorian London, where children are a commodity and women a convenience…
-
The Orphan's Silver Spoon
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: David Tyler
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Doxie Shaw suffers bitterly in an orphanage in Victorian London. As she struggles to survive, she tries to comfort the younger children, but her kindness quickly costs her the only home she's ever known. Thrown into the streets at the tender age of nine, Doxie's gentle heart tries to keep on loving and hoping in a world that seems bent on destroying her. Faced by one trial after another, Doxie becomes acquainted with the depth of cruelty in her city.
-
-
Very good storey
- By christine walter on 06-10-2021
-
The Shamed Little Match Girl
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dinah Shaw has learned not to ask questions about what her mother, Ethel, does for a living. She spends her days trying to keep her younger brother, Ollie, entertained and safe in the tiny Whitechapel tenement where they live. There’s never enough food, and their ominous landlord threatens them continually with eviction. Ethel is gone for days on end - and Dinah’s life is one of hardship and loneliness. The only bright spot in her world is Benjamin Morris, the boy who lives in the tenement next door.
-
A Desolate Christmas
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Cecily White
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lena Phillips has everything she could want: a father who adores her, a mother who spends hours reading to her, a nursery full of the most wonderful toys. Lena even has Sally Goodman, a doting governess. Lena is only four years old, and she's the happiest little girl in the whole wide world. As Christmas approaches, Lena grows more and more excited - unaware that a dark plot is brewing, and she will be caught in its tendrils.
-
An Orphan Called Christmas
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Tara-Louise Kaye
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On a cold, lonely Christmas Eve, 15-year-old Dovie Ellis gives birth to a baby girl she names Christmas. Lost and afraid in the world, Dovie flees, abandoning her child that very same night.
-
The Peddler's Widow
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Tara-Louise Kaye
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Daisy Parker’s life is imperfect, but it’s better than she could ever have imagined. Born in a Victorian workhouse, Daisy grew up knowing little other than discipline and desperate need. It is sweet and kind Bart Parker who changes her life by marrying her, giving her everything she holds most dear: a cozy home, a beautiful baby girl named Fannie, and a husband who truly loves her.
-
-
An ok story.
- By Amazon Customer on 22-04-2023
-
Grandfather's Christmas Orphans
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Laura Greaves
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alice Thorton is only five years old when her parents are killed in an accident. Together with her two little sisters, she is sent to live in a dismal part of London near the docks. Her grandfather loves them, but Christmas is a quiet, lonely affair in his little cottage. As the streets surrounding them turn dangerous, the girls are confined to the cottage. Alice’s only friend is Charlie Tillman, a cheerful young dockworker who is always looking out for her and her sisters.
-
The Seafarer's Lost Daughter
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The last thing Lindy Cook wants to do is leave Yorkshire behind. The countryside is the only home she’s ever known, and its splendid landscapes lift her spirits even amidst trouble, so does Titus, the bright-eyed country boy who’s always been her dear friend. Lindy’s troubles are many. Papa has gone to London for work; Mama is quite unwell, and her two little brothers constantly need to be fed and cared for. With no resources, she has no choice but to pack her little family into a stifling railway carriage headed for a whole new world - a world she doesn’t understand.
-
-
lovely
- By Sheryl.hendriksen@xtra.co.nz on 05-06-2021
-
The Ragged Hatmaker
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London. 1854. For years, Fern Hall has lived in an orphanage in the East End of London. It’s a brutal life of endless chores and punishments for even the smallest infractions. She’s able to escape it for a time when she’s hired out as a temporary maid to the wealthy Hawk family, but a servant’s lot is little better. Gerard Hawk, the second son of the prosperous merchant, is drawn to Fern from their very first meeting when she comes to work for his parents.
-
The Factory Girl's Song
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Olive Wickes knew a better life once. Before their old master died, her family lived in comfortable servants' quarters beside a garden where birdsong echoed through the day. But the new young master turned them out, and now Olive, her parents, and her five-year-old brother Jimmy are struggling to get by. In their cold and desolate tenement, Olive sings to Jimmy about the birds of the garden, trying to cling on to hope.
-
The Fraudulent Governess
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: David Tyler
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sophia Morgan and Elsie Carter share a unique friendship that defies the rigid social classes of Victorian London. Sophia is a lady; Elsie, a maid; but they’re bound together by a hardship that overcomes all obstacles. Their two children, Quincy and Ada, are raised in the Morgan house together, and their friendship grows steadily into something more. Simon Morgan, Sophia’s husband, is cruel and heartless. When a tragic death renders Simon completely unreasonable, little Ada’s world is torn apart.
-
The Harbour Master's Daughter
- By: Tania Crosse
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Free-spirited Rebecca Westbrook recognises her perfect match when she sees him. His name is Captain Adam Bradley. She is the harbour master’s daughter. He is smouldering and sophisticated - the most eligible captain ever to sail into the quay. Anyone can see it’s meant to be. But Rebecca is anything but charmed. Her heart belongs to Tom Mason, a lowly cooper she’s known forever. Her father doubts Tom's ability to provide securely for her. But Tom has a plan to prove him wrong. And until then, passionate Rebecca refuses to wait to be with him. But fate has other plans.
-
-
I have found a new author
- By Hanma on 24-03-2024
-
Abandoned Wharf Sisters
- By: Faye Godwin
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The streets of Whitechapel are a savage place to grow up, especially during the terrible winter of 1895. Even before she was brought into the world, the odds were stacked against Effie Wilson. Born to two irresponsible, alcoholic parents, Effie is the eldest of five children - none of whom really stand a chance. Matters are made even worse when Effie’s parents disappear one day, never to return. Her only hope could rest in Willie Green, a sweet boy with bright hazel eyes who comes and goes from Effie’s life. If only she knew when he might appear again...
Publisher's Summary
Cara Cooper’s third Christmas starts out as the best she’s ever known. As the daughter of a kitchen maid, she’s just old enough to be really excited. When a kind stranger appears and takes Cara to a beautiful house filled with toys and Christmas treats of every description, she is thrilled. Little does the toddler know that the kind stranger, Edna, has an ulterior motive.
Now kidnapped, Cara’s life is set on a collision course with tragedy. As Edna descends into madness, Cara falls from her favor and ends up as a maidservant herself, taken from her real mother so long ago that she barely remembers her.
One Christmas after another brings nothing but sorrow and hardship. The only hope Cara has is sweet and lovely Levi Hall, a childhood friend who slowly becomes her true love. But as Edna grows more and more cruel toward Cara, can Levi come through for her in time? Will Cara ever have a real Christmas?