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  • By: Sue Wilsher
  • Narrated by: Annie Aldington
  • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary

Keep the family together - that's what her old mum always said. Put up and shut up. And that's what everyone else did around there.

Essex, 1959. Flo earns her money as a scrubber, cleaning the cruise ships and dreaming of a day when she might sail away from her life in the Dwellings, the squalid tenements of Tilbury docks. Then the Blundell family are evicted from their home.

Fred, Flo's husband, finds work at Monday's, a utopian factory town. Suddenly it seems like everything is on the up for Flo Blundell and her children. Even Jeanie, Flo's sulking teenage daughter, seems to be thawing a little in her shiny new surroundings. But when Flo's abusive husband, Fred, starts drinking again, he jeopardises the family's chance to escape poverty for good.

Flo is faced with a terrible decision. Must she fight to keep her family together? Or could she strive for the life of her dreams - the kind of life she could have when her ship comes in?

©2016 Sue Wilsher (P)2016 Hachette Audio UK
Family Life Genre Fiction Women's Fiction Historical
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a lovely book. written well and narrated brilliantly as always by lovely Annie Aldington .

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Thoroughly Enjoyable

Because of the good ratings on this book I too listened. It’s true, I was kept spellbound from beginning to end. Couldn’t put it down. Can’t wait for another Sue Wilsher good read. Excellent.

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