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The Harbour Girl

a gripping historical romance saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Scarborough, 1880.

Young Jeannie spends her days watching her mother and the other harbour girls sitting at the water's edge - mending nets, gutting herring - and waiting for her friend Ethan Wharton to come in on his father's fishing smack.

As she was growing up, Jeannie always expected to marry Ethan, who is loyal and dependable. But then she meets Harry - a stranger who has come to visit from Hull for the day - and she falls for him. He is exciting and irresistible, and seems very keen on her. But he breaks his promise to come back for her, and Jeannie finds herself young, pregnant and feeling very isolated.

Jeannie moves to the port town of Hull where her new, difficult life with a child - touched by illness, tragedy and poverty - is often made bearable by the kindness of others. But she finds herself wishing for the simpler times of her past, wondering if she will ever find someone who will truly love her - and if Ethan will ever forgive her...


© Val Wood 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2012

 Coming of Age Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Victorian Women's Fiction Tear-jerking

Critic reviews

Hull's answer to Catherine Cookson
A heart-warming story filled with compelling action
Wonderfully fully-fleshed characters are the mainstay of [Val Wood's] stories
A gripping saga
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loved it kept me interested the whole way through. love the happy endings ....t

another great story

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Really enjoyed the whole book listen Narator was good brought it to life ! The story was very good all around Harbour life the History it just fills in the gaps of the all the things you ever wandered about in the old days of Harbour life ! net mending and trawlers the hard lives ensured be so many folk ! could listen to this book again! my ancestry is Brixham my visits each weekend will give me a sense of my past ! delighted ! thank-you 😊

loved it !

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The story line draws you in from the start. The characters are bought to life wonderfully by Anne Dover as always. Clever to leave you guessing at the end if any of them do, no spoilers! Highly recommend Val Wood books and I always look for Anne Dover as a narrator

Cliffhanger

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- Loved the local information of Scarborough and Hull for the Fisher folk in the early 1900. Well read by Anne Dover. she makes the story come alive.

A colourful story

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I love these tales that take you through every emotion on the planet!. Val/Valerie woods never disappoints.Im from Hull so have emotional connections with the area. I wanted to listen to this one because of the Scarborough location but I found it wasn't all located there . I suppose with the knowledge this Author possess of hull she as already done so much research. I loved it .i admire the time,thought process that this and all her other works took. well done and thank you again

I've 1 too go & I'm lucky enough too finished all

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