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A Respectable Woman

By: Susanna Bavin
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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After losing all her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert. However, five years on, she is just another backstreet housewife, making every penny do the work of tuppence and performing miracles with scrag-end.

When she discovers that Stan is leading a double life, she runs away to make a fresh start. Two years later, Nell has carved out a fulfilling new life for herself and her young children in Manchester, where her neighbours believe she is a respectable widow. But the past is hard to run from, and Nell must fight to protect the life she has made for herself and her children.

©2018 Susanna Bavin (P)2018 Soundings Fiction Genre Fiction Romance

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This book is outstanding it draws you in from the very beginning. Very moving and you feel for the characters through out . Gives you an insight into marriage of that time where the wife really had to obey their husbands and were made to feel inferior. Highly Recommend

Outstanding

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Was recommended this book and it did not disappoint, very engaging book from the start. Story content was very enjoyable and interesting to imagine the times and living of the past
Narrated very well listened on audible

Great book

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