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A Girl Next Door

Adams Family, Book 25

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A Girl Next Door

By: Mary Jane Staples
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
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About this listen

Boots Adams celebrates his 60th birthday in style with an old-fashioned Cockney knees-up, even if Gemma, James and the rest of the younger people insist that the music has to be rock and roll.

The new generation of the family are growing up quickly - Philip and Phoebe are spending a lot of time together and Maureen has ambitions to become a model, having her picture taken for the newspapers as she hopes for fame and fortune. Meanwhile, there are changes on the way. A local company wants to take over Adams Fashions and Boots and Sammy have difficult decisions to make. Rosie and Matt are thinking about selling the farm, but worry about Joe and Hortense, their loyal workers. While Felicity has resigned herself to never regaining her sight, Polly sees a familiar face that she can't place - a mysterious stranger who is being sheltered in Walworth. Anneliese encounters someone she never wished to see again and turns to Boots for help.

©2011 Mary Jane Staples (P)2021 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction

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All stars
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Great story, fantastic ending!
narration from Annie Addington
brilliant yet again. Well done
Mary Jane staples, I don't know how you get every book so great when there's 29!
Well done 👍.

Fab!

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As usual this didn’t disappoint. I’m getting sad because I’m approaching the end of this wonderful well written series. Just a fantastic feel good read and the characters are so familiar now.

Fantastic

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I've enjoyed all the Adams family books, but I feel this one takes you back to the earlier books. It's lovely to catch up with previous characters and their families.

I'd love this family saga to be made into a TV series, I'm sure it would have the same popularity as Call the Midwife or even Downton Abbey.

Loved it!

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Loved this book just as much as the others. Listening in sequence. Don’t want them to end.

Another winner

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Another well paced Adams story read with enthusiasm, taking the family into the rock ‘n’ roll years.

A great story

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