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A Mother’s Sorrow
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen, finds that she is pregnant, Patrick throws her out of the family home and Flora goes with her. After wandering the Derbyshire countryside for miles, they find shelter on a farm, working for their keep. When Flora must return to her job as a buffer girl in Sheffield’s cutlery trade, she is reunited with her friend, Evelyn Bonsor.
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A Mother’s Sorrow
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2024
- Language: English
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Secrets at Bletchley Park
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
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In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide.
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Secrets at Bletchley Park
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Clippie Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes in their lives are inevitable. For Rose, there is the chance to fulfil her dream of becoming a clippie on Sheffield's trams like Peggy. But for Myrtle, the studious, clever one in the family, war may shatter her ambitions.
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The Clippie Girls
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2014
- Language: English
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The Buffer Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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It's 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War. Walter has returned home a broken man, and so it falls to his son, Josh, and daughter, Emily, to do their best to keep their family business as the village candle makers going. Josh and Emily are great friends with Thomas 'Trip' Trippet, whose father owns a cutlery manufacturing company in Sheffield, and Amy Clark, daughter of the local blacksmith.
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The Buffer Girls
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2016
- Language: English
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Jenny's War
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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Is it possible for a 10-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer thinks so. Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End of London at the outbreak of war, she is frightened of the wide-open spaces and the huge skies. But the kindly Thornton family soon makes her feel welcome. And no one more so than Georgie, the handsome RAF fighter pilot who is caught up in the battle for Britain's survival. When Georgie is posted missing, presumed dead, Jenny is devastated.
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Jenny's War
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-02-2014
- Language: English
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Forgive and Forget
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Polly Longden's china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes her home city of Lincoln, she needs every ounce of that strength in order to cope. With the death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Polly has to give up her ambition of becoming a teacher to care for her family. When their father, too, falls victim to the typhoid, his only hope is to go to hospital, leaving Polly to cope alone. Thankfully she has the support of her neighbours: Bertha Halliday and her son, Leo, a young policeman.
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Forgive and Forget
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2014
- Language: English
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The Spitfire Sisters
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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Family and friendship mean everything under the darkening skies of wartime Britain, by Sunday Times best-selling author Margaret Dickinson. It is the 1930s, and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Great War struggling to come to terms with its catastrophic aftermath, and their hopes now lie with the next generation. Their Lincolnshire village of Doddington suffered terrible loss and it has taken great courage for the bereaved families to rebuild their lives without their loved ones.
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The Spitfire Sisters
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Series: Maitland Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2020
- Language: English
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Twisted Strands
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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It is 1914, and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in in her early thirties, has married Richard. As the First World War breaks out, Eveleen, a sophisticated young woman, is left to manage the factory while Richard goes off to fight for his country. Eveleen's mother Mary has found happiness at last in her marriage to Josh. Her young granddaughter, Bridie, still lives at home, and is beautiful, but has a spirited, strong will which her grandmother finds hard to control.
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Twisted Strands
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2014
- Language: English
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The Poacher's Daughter
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Fourteen-year-old Rosie Waterhouse lives with her father, Sam, well-known as the local poacher, in a cottage on the Thornsby Estate. The land is owned by William Ramsey, a harsh and heartless man, determined his only son, Byron, should marry well and produce an heir. Rosie is quick to learn the tricks of her father’s trade and it’s when she’s poaching fish from the estate’s stream that she meets Byron.
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The Poacher's Daughter
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2023
- Language: English
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Wartime Friends
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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It is 1940s coastal Lincolnshire, and Carolyn Holmes is keen to do what she can for the war effort. Raised on the family farm, she battles with her mother to further her education, although nothing is too good for her brother. Phyllis Carter, a bitter widow from the Great War, lives close by with her son, who works on the farm. When Peter decides to volunteer, a distraught Phyllis blames Carolyn, who leaves to join the ATS where she meets Beryl. Carolyn and Beryl are posted to Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire as ‘listeners’, the most difficult of signals intelligence gathering.
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Wartime Friends
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Brooklands Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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It is the early 1920s, and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her brave work as an ambulance driver and nurse close to the Front, Pips is restless and without purpose. Determined to enjoy life after the years of misery, and to help her forget a broken love affair, she seeks excitement in the London parties and balls of the Roaring '20s. No family or community escaped the ravages of this war, and Pips knows her own has its share of troubles.
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The Brooklands Girls
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Series: Maitland Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2019
- Language: English
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The Poppy Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother, Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down and raise children. However, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all. But the year is 1914, and the future is uncertain. Hearing that her father's friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to go with her.
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The Poppy Girls
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Series: Maitland Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-02-2018
- Language: English
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Plough the Furrow
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Lincolnshire, 1910. Shunned by her own family, desperate for work and a place to stay, Esther Everatt walks through the night to Sam Brumby's farm, seeking the chance to earn her keep. Reluctantly, the old man takes her on. But her peace and security are cruelly shattered when old Sam dies. As a woman she has no right to inherit the lease on the farm.
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Plough the Furrow
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2007
- Language: English
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Red Sky in the Morning
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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A young girl stands alone in the cobbled market place of a small Lincolnshire town, bedraggled, soaked through and very afraid. Who is she? Where has she come from and from whom is she running away? No one knows or cares. Only kindly farmer, Eddie Appleyard, recognises something in the girl that touches his heart. In a drunken haze and scarcely realising what he is doing, Eddie takes her home even though his wife is a tyrant, who will believe the worst.
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Red Sky in the Morning
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2014
- Language: English
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Fairfield Hall
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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A matter of honour. A sense of duty. A time for courage. Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter, Annabel, shall marry into the nobility. A self-made trawler owner and fish merchant, he has only his wealth to buy his way into Society. When Annabel’s secret meetings with a young man employed at her father’s offices stop suddenly, she finds that Gilbert has mysteriously disappeared.
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Fairfield Hall
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2014
- Language: English
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Daughters of Courage
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Emily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. Brought there by her mother's ambitious schemes for her brother, Josh, she had found work as a buffer girl polishing cutlery for the city's famous trade. With the help of a friend, Nell, Emily eventually set up her own buffing business, employing those with whom she had once worked. Married to Thomas Trippet - Trip to his friends - they plan to build a life together, but when Lucy, Nell's daughter, disappears, it seems that the menace from the past is never very far away.
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Daughters of Courage
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2017
- Language: English
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Sing as We Go
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance at the village hall for amusement, she yearns for the bright lights. Spurning Morry Robinson's proposal of marriage, Kathy goes to live in the city with his aunt, Jemima Robinson. In turn, she finds employment for Kathy in a department store, but is anxious when Kathy is captivated by the sophisticated and handsome floor manager, Tony Kendall.
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Sing as We Go
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2014
- Language: English
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Pauper's Gold
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales. It is a cruel blow for such a young girl, but her three travelling companions are even younger than she is, and Hannah is determined to keep their spirits up and remain in good cheer.
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Pauper's Gold
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2014
- Language: English
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The Fisher Lass
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Flame-haired Jeannie Buchanan has spent all her life in the shadow of the dark North Sea. Working with freezing fingers to gut the precious herring, she follows the fleet south, travelling far away from her Scottish home. When her beloved father's trawler goes missing, Jeannie must face up to life on her own. But her fiery temper and fierce independence attract powerful and devious enemies.
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The Fisher Lass
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2008
- Language: English
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Wish Me Luck
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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Fleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain. Posted to a newly built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur as an R/T operator in the watch office, their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF, Ruth. The two girls become good friends, but Ruth, already hurt by the loss of one of the pilots, does not approve of wartime romances.
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Wish Me Luck
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2014
- Language: English
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