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Daughters of Penny Lane
- Narrated by: Marlene Sidaway
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost her house in Bootle and three sisters to the bombs that fell over Liverpool.
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