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A Mother's Shame

By: Rosie Clarke
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
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A new standalone novel from the bestselling author Rosie Clarke

East End of London

Maggie Bailey has not had an easy childhood. Her father, Michael, always too easy with his fists after spending the family’s rent money down the pub.

Just sixteen, in love and blinded by promises, Maggie sees marriage to handsome Jack as her great escape. However, she soon finds herself abandoned with a beautiful baby when Jack disappears. Maggie is forced to seek a new life away from the East End of London and finds herself a job at a hotel in Yarmouth.

Here she must learn to fend for herself and also accept a shocking discovery that she was fostered as a babe and nothing is known of her real parents.

Her employer, Aunt Beth, is kind and her life improves – but Maggie makes one mistake after another and, eventually, they lead to a terrible tragedy that will bring her to the point of no return.

Will Maggie ever find true happiness and discover the secret of her birth?

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED as ALL MY SINS

©2022 Rosie Clarke (P)2022 Boldwood Books Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Small Town & Rural

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I loved this book. It’s the first book I’ve read by this author and I now intend to go and read her other books!

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What a lovely story, this is the second book I've listened to from Kitty Neale & it certainly won't be the last as these books are gripping. It would certainly be nice if there was a follow up. Highly recommended

A mother shame

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Very good story I liked all of it good listers thank you for this story keep me wanting to go back all the time

Very good story

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moving storyline from start to finish. The narrator was very good at using different voices for the characters.

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gripped at the first line , what a lovely story from start to finish,
ann adlington is my favourite narrator who fetches the characters alive , absolutely wonderful sad when it came to the end

Fabulous

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