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A Hopscotch Summer
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham. As long as everything is all right at home with her Ma and Pa, her little sister Joyce and brother Sid, then life is good.
But after Em's mother, Cynthia, has her baby she just doesn't seem to be able to cope. Her lifelong friend and neighbour Dot helps as much as she can, but she has children of her own, and no man to hand; Cynthia's husband Bob, too, does his best, but begins to feel that he's losing the wife he has loved so much; and little Em just can't find enough hours in the day to do all the washing and cleaning.
Soon, it seems, the only thing is for Cynthia to go and stay across the city with her tyrannical older sister. With Cynthia away, life only gets harder for Em. Her best friend, Kate, ostracizes her, leaving only poor, stinky Molly Fox at her side, and when the Board Man comes to call, wanting to know why she's not at school, things are really bad.
When Bob stays out later and later in the evenings, always the worse for wear, and spending too much time with a local very merry widow, Em decides to travel across Birmingham to fetch her mother home, but the mother she discovers is a far cry from the proud, upright, and loving figure she has known so well....
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- Frankie
- 21-02-23
wonderful
I loved this book, I really enjoyed listening to it I did shed few tears, I'm so glad I didn't live in this time
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-05-23
Great book
Really enjoyed this story, being a brummy myself it was a pleasure to hear my own accent .
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- Anne Dudley
- 09-10-22
A lovely book
Annie Murray is one of my favourite authors because I do enjoy listening to How people lived. This story holds nothing back as it shows peoples lives at their worst
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- Rosie
- 25-02-19
gripping
loved it. easy to listen to. didn't want it to end. on to the next Annie Murray
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- S. M. Sinclair
- 12-10-22
Beautiful Heartwarming Easy Listen
A moving story, about a working class family in Birmingham. Times were hard. And they face a lot of obstacles. Beautifully Written and wonderfully narrated. Penelope Freeman bought the characters to life.
I'm hoping to listen to others in this series.
highly recommended.
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- Scots lass
- 07-08-22
great listen loved this book
loved this book by Annie Murray the usual brilliant narration by Penelope Freeman definitely recommend it
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- KATHY
- 08-04-24
sad but true story
I found this a sad but true story and reminded me of my own childhood as my mum had mental health after my brother was born and was admitted to a hospital in 1966
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- Rachel
- 28-03-15
This grows on you. A great listen, sad at times!
I've e joyed all the Ann Murray stories that I have read and this one was just as good!
The voice of the children was hard to listen to at first but I got used to it so don't be put off by it. It really is worth sticking with.
Very sad at times. A realistic account of life at that time. It did have me in tears on many occasions.
I'm about to listen to the next book in this series and can't wait to see what happens next! Well wort the listen!!!
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- Sue
- 14-05-15
easy listen
A lovely story. The narrator made it so much more interesting. One of the best.
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- jennybea
- 17-04-23
Most boring book from this author
I definitely found listening to end boring. loved narrative that kept me listening to end
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