Listen free for 30 days
-
The Girl with No Home
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Listen with a free trial
Buy Now for £27.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Hay Bales and Hollyhocks
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Cambridge Fens, 1938. Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect. But things are not always as they seem. When Rosanna's new baby brother is born, tragedy strikes the family. And with the outbreak of World War II just around the corner and a move to the Norfolk countryside, Rosanna's life is changed forever.
-
A Winter Hope
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Rosie Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Number five Kitchener Avenue heralds the start of a new life for the Hope family. For pregnant Miriam, it is a warm, safe environment to bring up her child. For her sister, 14-year-old Barbara, it means independence...and boys. And for Fred, it means the security he craves for his young family. In the lead up to Christmas, the Hopes settle in, and start to make happy memories in their new home. But World War II is round the corner, and this carefree life can't last.
-
-
A very family view of the war and their lives.
- By Idadown on 01-10-20
-
The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl
- By: AnneMarie Brear
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Yorkshire Dales, 1850. As a terrible storm rages, Annabelle Wallis is shocked to find a distressed young woman at her cottage door, heavy with child. Moments later a baby girl is born. But by dawn, the mother has vanished, leaving behind the helpless child wrapped only in a silk peacock shawl. When news spreads that Lady Eliza Hartley, sister to a wealthy estate owner, has been found dead, Annabelle realises the terrible secret she has stumbled on. Terrified she’ll be blamed for Eliza’s death, Annabelle flees to the slums of York, where she plans to raise the orphan as her own.
-
-
Brilliant
- By barbara on 20-03-22
-
The Punch and Judy Girl
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A heartwarming novel from the queen of family saga and author of Bicycles and Blackberries, Sheila Newberry. Suffolk, 1925. At only 16 years old, May Moon travels to West Wick, Suffolk, to become the local Punch and Judy girl. Determined to fulfil her dead father's wishes and to continue his business, May has her work cut out for her during her summer on the beach. Staying with a local family, she not only enjoys the silvery sand and sunshine; she also experiences first love, partings and reunions.
-
-
entetaining
- By shirley pickin on 26-11-18
-
The Meadow Girls
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
August 1914. Twelve-year-old Mattie and her little sister, Evie, lead an idyllic life in the Suffolk countryside, playing in the meadows and picking watercress in the streams. Living with their family in Plough Cottage, little do they know that this perfect childhood will soon come to an end with the start of the First World War. As the years pass the girls go on to live very different lives. Mattie travels from Suffolk to Plymouth and then to Canada and America, whilst Evie remains in England and pursues her career.
-
The Gingerbread Girl
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Cindy Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While in hospital, seven-year-old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings a gift of a gingerbread man. Little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her. When tragedy strikes, she moves to London with her new guardian, Eliza. As war approaches and the past comes knocking, everything changes again. Is Cora destined to repeat her parents' mistakes?
-
-
Boring
- By mitzi on 27-03-19
-
Hay Bales and Hollyhocks
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Cambridge Fens, 1938. Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect. But things are not always as they seem. When Rosanna's new baby brother is born, tragedy strikes the family. And with the outbreak of World War II just around the corner and a move to the Norfolk countryside, Rosanna's life is changed forever.
-
A Winter Hope
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Rosie Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Number five Kitchener Avenue heralds the start of a new life for the Hope family. For pregnant Miriam, it is a warm, safe environment to bring up her child. For her sister, 14-year-old Barbara, it means independence...and boys. And for Fred, it means the security he craves for his young family. In the lead up to Christmas, the Hopes settle in, and start to make happy memories in their new home. But World War II is round the corner, and this carefree life can't last.
-
-
A very family view of the war and their lives.
- By Idadown on 01-10-20
-
The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl
- By: AnneMarie Brear
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Yorkshire Dales, 1850. As a terrible storm rages, Annabelle Wallis is shocked to find a distressed young woman at her cottage door, heavy with child. Moments later a baby girl is born. But by dawn, the mother has vanished, leaving behind the helpless child wrapped only in a silk peacock shawl. When news spreads that Lady Eliza Hartley, sister to a wealthy estate owner, has been found dead, Annabelle realises the terrible secret she has stumbled on. Terrified she’ll be blamed for Eliza’s death, Annabelle flees to the slums of York, where she plans to raise the orphan as her own.
-
-
Brilliant
- By barbara on 20-03-22
-
The Punch and Judy Girl
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A heartwarming novel from the queen of family saga and author of Bicycles and Blackberries, Sheila Newberry. Suffolk, 1925. At only 16 years old, May Moon travels to West Wick, Suffolk, to become the local Punch and Judy girl. Determined to fulfil her dead father's wishes and to continue his business, May has her work cut out for her during her summer on the beach. Staying with a local family, she not only enjoys the silvery sand and sunshine; she also experiences first love, partings and reunions.
-
-
entetaining
- By shirley pickin on 26-11-18
-
The Meadow Girls
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
August 1914. Twelve-year-old Mattie and her little sister, Evie, lead an idyllic life in the Suffolk countryside, playing in the meadows and picking watercress in the streams. Living with their family in Plough Cottage, little do they know that this perfect childhood will soon come to an end with the start of the First World War. As the years pass the girls go on to live very different lives. Mattie travels from Suffolk to Plymouth and then to Canada and America, whilst Evie remains in England and pursues her career.
-
The Gingerbread Girl
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Cindy Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While in hospital, seven-year-old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings a gift of a gingerbread man. Little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her. When tragedy strikes, she moves to London with her new guardian, Eliza. As war approaches and the past comes knocking, everything changes again. Is Cora destined to repeat her parents' mistakes?
-
-
Boring
- By mitzi on 27-03-19
-
Bicycles and Blackberries
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The East End, 1939. When war comes to London, the bright and irrepressible Georgia Smith is torn from her tight-knit family and packed off as an evacuee. She moves in with Phoebe Bliss, whose cheerful smile masks a dark past that 10-year-old Georgia couldn't possibly understand. Georgia soon finds herself involved in the small town's complicated love lives. But some secrets aren't meant for little girls, and she finds herself in danger. Can a good heart keep a mischievous girl out of trouble?
-
-
Nice gentle read
- By Retiredsw on 26-01-18
-
The Nursemaid's Secret
- Tears, Smiles and a Guaranteed Happy Ending
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Eve Webster
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A warmhearted and nostalgic festive family saga. Will Tilly finally find a family to call her own? As Christmas grows nearer, Tilly, a young maid, is sent away from her home in London to care for a sick child in an old cottage on the Isle of Sheppey, and she little imagines how her life will change.... Having settled in with her new family, Tilly dares to believe that the happiness she's longed for could be hers at last and that she might finally be free from the secrets of her past.
-
-
The Nursemaids Secret
- By Julia Merrett on 07-06-19
-
A Very Special Christmas
- By: Anna Jacobs
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abigail Beadle has given two decades of her life to caring for her late father and looking after the centuries-old family home. She has never married because Lucas Chadwick, the man she loved when she was young, left the village with his family. When her loathed stepmother dies, Abigail is glad to be released from the woman's nagging and bullying, but the will she left casts doubt on Abigail's inheritance. It is not until Lucas returns to the village and helps to get to the bottom of the complicated situation that Abigail begins to believe her life might be able to start at last.
-
-
Gorgeous and uplifting
- By wen-di on 21-11-21
-
Mara's Choice
- By: Anna Jacobs
- Narrated by: Taryn Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father whom she believed to have died when she was a child, her world is turned upside down. Aaron Buchanan only discovered that he had a daughter a couple of years ago and now he's desperate to play a part in her life. In the face of her mother's opposition, Mara arranges to meet her father and his family. In a breath-taking corner of the world, amid a waterfront community on Australia's west coast, will Mara find him the disappointment that her mother promises?
-
-
Small World
- By Jyne Mills on 25-11-21
-
The Winter Baby
- By: Sheila Newberry
- Narrated by: Mary Woodvine
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alone at Christmas, will she find somewhere to call home? No more than 18 years old, alone and heavily pregnant, Kathleen stumbles through the snow, desperate for somewhere to rest her weary head. As the Christmas bells chime around her, she glimpses a man through the haze before collapsing into his arms.
-
-
The Winter Baby
- By Beryl on 20-02-18
-
The Orphanage
- Absolutely Heartbreaking Historical Fiction (Shilling Grange Children’s Home, Book 1)
- By: Lizzie Page
- Narrated by: Emily Barber
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Clara Newton is the new Housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their homes and left without families, their lives torn apart by the war, just like Clara’s. Devastated by the loss of her fiancé, a brave American pilot, she is just looking for a place to start again. But the orphans are in desperate need of her help.
-
-
The Orphanage
- By nannienorff on 15-11-21
-
Children of Fortune
- By: Val Wood
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Following the untimely death of her husband, Beatrix and her three children are finally free. While Ambrose has already determined his path in life, eldest son Laurie's future is less certain. Meanwhile, headstrong and independent Alicia is defying expectation and excelling at school. There, she befriends the enigmatic Olivia Snowdon and they quickly become inseparable. But Olivia's family past is shrouded in mystery and as she begins to dig deeper secrets come tumbling out.
-
-
fabulous
- By A. Richards on 28-12-21
-
The Rose Queen
- By: Katie Flynn
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's 1938, and Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled to be treated like royalty for the day. But deep down she is desperate to leave the Welsh mining community where she grew up. When war is declared, Cadi and her best friend, Poppy, see a chance to escape. Cadi leaves behind her parents and local boy Aled, whom she is meant to marry, for Liverpool.
-
-
Th3 Rose Queen
- By anny on 24-02-22
-
Abel's Daughter
- By: Meg Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Shocked beyond measure at her wrongful imprisonment, Phoebe Pardoe finds it hard to adjust to the harshness of life in the infamous Handsworth Prison. She struggles to maintain her unconquered spirit, little suspecting that her arrest is the work of her jealous Aunt Annie. Phoebe has a guardian angel in the form of Sir William Dartmouth, who eventually engineers her release. But even so, cruelly disinherited, Phoebe must strive to make a living for herself in a man's world.
-
-
A fairytale dressed up as historical fiction
- By Kimberley Jarman on 12-11-21
-
The Orphan Girl
- By: Chrissie Walsh
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
West Yorkshire, 1901. When Eli Simmonite takes in a heavily pregnant woman fleeing from peril, he feels sure no good will come of it. After all, settled folk don't need much reason to take against the travellers, so having one seek safety amongst his people is unheard of. When danger comes knocking, they leave devastation in their wake. Eli is left with the baby girl and his orphaned grandson; a reminder of the offer of aid that cost him his family. With no kin but the adopted family who hold her responsible for their demise, Rosie is filled with questions of her past.
-
The Runaway Children
- By: Sandy Taylor
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London, 1942: Thirteen-year-old Nell and five-year-old Olive are being sent away from home to escape the devastation of the East End during the Blitz. Leaving behind their beloved mother and brothers, they don’t know if they will ever see them again. As the sisters adjust to their new life in a close-knit Welsh village, they gradually find hope in the friendships they make. And Nell kindles a special bond with fellow evacuee Jimmy, who makes her smile even at the hardest of times. But when little Olive’s safety is threatened, Nell makes a decision that will change their lives forever.
-
-
Great story!!
- By Amazon Customer on 20-01-18
-
Beneath a Frosty Moon
- By: Rita Bradshaw
- Narrated by: Julia Barrie
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Rita Bradshaw's Beneath a Frosty Moon, it’s 1940, and Britain is at war with Germany. For Cora Stubbs and her younger siblings this means being evacuated to the safety of the English countryside. But little does Cora know that Hitler’s bombs are nothing compared to the danger she will face in her new home, and she is forced to grow up fast. However, Cora is a fighter, and she strives to carve out a new life for herself and her siblings. Time passes, and in the midst of grief and loss she falls in love, but what other tragedies lie around the corner?
-
-
Heartwarming
- By lynsey watson on 20-11-18
Summary
A heartwarming novel from the Queen of family saga, Sheila Newberry.
London, 1888. Abandoned by her mother at the age of seven, Jerusha Carey is no stranger to being left behind.
Eleven years later she is married to Dan Applebee, an older, reliable farmer from Kent. Jerusha believes she has finally found the security she has always craved. But then disaster strikes.
Kent, 1904. Two years after the sudden death of her husband, Jerusha is alone once again. But the arrival of the enigmatic Joe Finch, a traveller seeking work on the farm and a home for his daughter, sets Jerusha's life on a new path, giving her hope for her future. Has Jerusha found her happy ending at last, or will she be forever destined to lose the ones she loves?
More from the same
What listeners say about The Girl with No Home
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- suek
- 27-07-21
Great likeable story
Really enjoyed this book. Like how it followed the life of one person. Loves the description of the countryside.