The Pearl Button Girl cover art

The Pearl Button Girl

The gritty and heartwarming historical fiction from the Sunday Times bestselling saga author

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Pearl Button Girl

By: Annie Murray
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

'This heartfelt story is perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn' - Candis

'Gritty and moving story-telling' - Peterborough Telegraph

Annie Murray's The Pearl Button Girl is book one in the Children of Birmingham series, starting in Victorian Birmingham and following the trials and triumphs of the Fletcher family.

Working at the local pearl button factory, Ada Fletcher is doing her best to make ends meet in trying times.

When tragedy strikes and her siblings are taken to a workhouse orphanage, Ada is saved from a similar fate by her neighbour, Sarah Connell.

But the roof over Ada’s head doesn’t come without a price: the Connells have too many children, not enough money, and Sarah’s reliance on drink means that it isn’t long before Ada needs to escape.

Determined to be more than just a factory girl, Ada embarks on a journey to reunite with her siblings. But in a teeming industrial city, will she be able to find long-lost family as well as a home and life to call her own?

 Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Victorian

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Not My Child cover art
The Workhouse Lass cover art
The Orphan's Promise cover art
The Winter Belle cover art
Meet Me Under the Clock cover art
The Pick-Pocket Orphans cover art
The Rag Princess cover art
The Orphan’s Heartbreak cover art
The Winter Runaway cover art
The Street cover art
War Babies cover art
Our Fair Lily cover art
A Mother's Secret cover art
Now the War Is Over cover art
The Waterfront Lass cover art
The Winter Widow cover art

Critic reviews

Murray achieves authenticity with a detailed historical knowledge, especially of the button factories and the squalid lives of those forced to work in them, for a pittance of a wage
Heart-warming and affecting tale
This heartfelt story is perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Katie Flynn
The popular saga writer returns to her roots with the first in the Children of Birmingham series . . . It’s gritty and moving story-telling
An involving read that perfectly evokes the hardship of life at the time in the Second City
All stars
Most relevant
loved all the references to old Brum where my family all came from and the history of life of my great grandparents

old Birmingham

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Lovely book really enjoyed listening to it would recommend it nice long chapters heart warming

The story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great historical story, Great mixture of characters. Was somewhat suprised to hear 1 chapter read by another reader which I didn't like much.

Lovely listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I loved this story and it’s one off these stories that you wish could go on,my heart melted when George and Elsie got married and we found out Nancy was pregnant again it was a real feel good story and you would be hard if it didn’t melt your heart🩷💙🩷

Pearl Button Girl

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I loved this, great interesting and realistic story, I would definatley recommend, listened to it over a couple of days, Don't miss this one x

fabulous

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews