Listen free for 30 days
-
The Poppy Girls
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Series: Maitland Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 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 £13.99
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...
-
The Brooklands Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is the early 1920s, and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her brave work as an ambulance driver and nurse close to the Front, Pips is restless and without purpose. Determined to enjoy life after the years of misery, and to help her forget a broken love affair, she seeks excitement in the London parties and balls of the Roaring '20s. No family or community escaped the ravages of this war, and Pips knows her own has its share of troubles.
-
-
Margaret Dickinson never fails!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-22
-
Wartime Friends
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is 1940s coastal Lincolnshire, and Carolyn Holmes is keen to do what she can for the war effort. Raised on the family farm, she battles with her mother to further her education, although nothing is too good for her brother. Phyllis Carter, a bitter widow from the Great War, lives close by with her son, who works on the farm. When Peter decides to volunteer, a distraught Phyllis blames Carolyn, who leaves to join the ATS where she meets Beryl. Carolyn and Beryl are posted to Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire as ‘listeners’, the most difficult of signals intelligence gathering.
-
-
War tome friends
- By Mrs. T. Marshall on 16-05-22
-
Fairfield Hall
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A matter of honour. A sense of duty. A time for courage. Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter, Annabel, shall marry into the nobility. A self-made trawler owner and fish merchant, he has only his wealth to buy his way into Society. When Annabel’s secret meetings with a young man employed at her father’s offices stop suddenly, she finds that Gilbert has mysteriously disappeared.
-
-
Utterly wonderful!!
- By Hattie on 28-08-17
-
The Clippie Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes in their lives are inevitable. For Rose, there is the chance to fulfil her dream of becoming a clippie on Sheffield's trams like Peggy. But for Myrtle, the studious, clever one in the family, war may shatter her ambitions.
-
-
Family at war!
- By Sandra on 27-01-17
-
Secrets at Bletchley Park
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide.
-
-
Please let there be a second book
- By Immy on 18-05-21
-
The Buffer Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War. Walter has returned home a broken man, and so it falls to his son, Josh, and daughter, Emily, to do their best to keep their family business as the village candle makers going. Josh and Emily are great friends with Thomas 'Trip' Trippet, whose father owns a cutlery manufacturing company in Sheffield, and Amy Clark, daughter of the local blacksmith.
-
-
loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 01-03-16
-
The Brooklands Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Kate Rawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is the early 1920s, and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her brave work as an ambulance driver and nurse close to the Front, Pips is restless and without purpose. Determined to enjoy life after the years of misery, and to help her forget a broken love affair, she seeks excitement in the London parties and balls of the Roaring '20s. No family or community escaped the ravages of this war, and Pips knows her own has its share of troubles.
-
-
Margaret Dickinson never fails!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-06-22
-
Wartime Friends
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is 1940s coastal Lincolnshire, and Carolyn Holmes is keen to do what she can for the war effort. Raised on the family farm, she battles with her mother to further her education, although nothing is too good for her brother. Phyllis Carter, a bitter widow from the Great War, lives close by with her son, who works on the farm. When Peter decides to volunteer, a distraught Phyllis blames Carolyn, who leaves to join the ATS where she meets Beryl. Carolyn and Beryl are posted to Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire as ‘listeners’, the most difficult of signals intelligence gathering.
-
-
War tome friends
- By Mrs. T. Marshall on 16-05-22
-
Fairfield Hall
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A matter of honour. A sense of duty. A time for courage. Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter, Annabel, shall marry into the nobility. A self-made trawler owner and fish merchant, he has only his wealth to buy his way into Society. When Annabel’s secret meetings with a young man employed at her father’s offices stop suddenly, she finds that Gilbert has mysteriously disappeared.
-
-
Utterly wonderful!!
- By Hattie on 28-08-17
-
The Clippie Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes in their lives are inevitable. For Rose, there is the chance to fulfil her dream of becoming a clippie on Sheffield's trams like Peggy. But for Myrtle, the studious, clever one in the family, war may shatter her ambitions.
-
-
Family at war!
- By Sandra on 27-01-17
-
Secrets at Bletchley Park
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide.
-
-
Please let there be a second book
- By Immy on 18-05-21
-
The Buffer Girls
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It's 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War. Walter has returned home a broken man, and so it falls to his son, Josh, and daughter, Emily, to do their best to keep their family business as the village candle makers going. Josh and Emily are great friends with Thomas 'Trip' Trippet, whose father owns a cutlery manufacturing company in Sheffield, and Amy Clark, daughter of the local blacksmith.
-
-
loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 01-03-16
-
The River Folk
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For 12-year-old Mary Ann Clark life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk, it is no surprise that she has grown up afraid of her own shadow. That is until "Battling Bessie Ruddick" takes the young girl under her wing and into the heart of her bustling family.
-
Jenny's War
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Is it possible for a 10-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer thinks so. Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End of London at the outbreak of war, she is frightened of the wide-open spaces and the huge skies. But the kindly Thornton family soon makes her feel welcome. And no one more so than Georgie, the handsome RAF fighter pilot who is caught up in the battle for Britain's survival. When Georgie is posted missing, presumed dead, Jenny is devastated.
-
-
A Wonderfully Uplifting Story
- By P on 15-02-17
-
Daughters of Courage
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Emily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. Brought there by her mother's ambitious schemes for her brother, Josh, she had found work as a buffer girl polishing cutlery for the city's famous trade. With the help of a friend, Nell, Emily eventually set up her own buffing business, employing those with whom she had once worked. Married to Thomas Trippet - Trip to his friends - they plan to build a life together, but when Lucy, Nell's daughter, disappears, it seems that the menace from the past is never very far away.
-
-
fabulous!
- By prmiaj on 13-03-17
-
Forgive and Forget
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Polly Longden's china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes her home city of Lincoln, she needs every ounce of that strength in order to cope. With the death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Polly has to give up her ambition of becoming a teacher to care for her family. When their father, too, falls victim to the typhoid, his only hope is to go to hospital, leaving Polly to cope alone. Thankfully she has the support of her neighbours: Bertha Halliday and her son, Leo, a young policeman.
-
-
The bonds of family
- By Vickied on 29-03-16
-
Welcome Home
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive.... Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil Horton have been friends for more than twenty years, sharing the joys and sorrows of tough lives as the wives of fishermen in Grimsby. So it was no surprise that their children were close and that Edie's son, Frank, and Lil's daughter, Irene, would fall in love and marry at a young age. But the declaration of war in 1939 changes everything.
-
-
good
- By Susan on 08-04-15
-
Tangled Threads
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For Eveleen Hardcastle life gets no better than growing up on Pear Tree Farm in the Lincolnshire countryside. Her family works hard for the Dunsmore estate and Eveleen finds it impossible to resist the charms of their employer's son, Stephen Dunsmore. But Jimmy, ever quick to antagonize, ensures that his sister's clandestine trysts do not remain so for long. Mary Hardcastle reacts to the news of her daughter's affair with a shocking ferocity, which seems to be borm more of bitterness than maternal protectiveness.
-
-
Lovely story
- By suzanne barber on 13-05-18
-
Sons and Daughters
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Charlotte is an only child, reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he desires. Loved by most that she meets, Charlotte has a gift for friendship, and it is her work as a Sunday school teacher that gives her hope - and an escape from home. When Charlotte meets Miles Thornton, she is instantly drawn to him. He is new to the area and a widower, with three lovely young sons to look after, but the one thing he has longed for is a daughter.
-
-
Not a bad story
- By Frankie on 05-11-20
-
Twisted Strands
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is 1914, and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in in her early thirties, has married Richard. As the First World War breaks out, Eveleen, a sophisticated young woman, is left to manage the factory while Richard goes off to fight for his country. Eveleen's mother Mary has found happiness at last in her marriage to Josh. Her young granddaughter, Bridie, still lives at home, and is beautiful, but has a spirited, strong will which her grandmother finds hard to control.
-
-
A gripping story
- By Hazel Kenny on 07-02-16
-
Red Sky in the Morning
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A young girl stands alone in the cobbled market place of a small Lincolnshire town, bedraggled, soaked through and very afraid. Who is she? Where has she come from and from whom is she running away? No one knows or cares. Only kindly farmer, Eddie Appleyard, recognises something in the girl that touches his heart. In a drunken haze and scarcely realising what he is doing, Eddie takes her home even though his wife is a tyrant, who will believe the worst.
-
-
Wonderful and far to addictive!
- By Christine Covey on 08-04-15
-
Pauper's Gold
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales. It is a cruel blow for such a young girl, but her three travelling companions are even younger than she is, and Hannah is determined to keep their spirits up and remain in good cheer.
-
-
Paupers Gold
- By Sue on 21-01-17
-
The Tulip Girl
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abandoned outside an orphanage as a newborn baby, spirited Maddie March has had to fight her way through life. So when she finds a home at Few Farm with Frank Brackenbury and his household, she welcomes the chance for a fresh start. Work on the farm is hard, but believing herself truly loved for the first time in her young life by the farmer's son, Michael, even the animosity of the housekeeper Mrs Trowbridge cannot mar Maddie's newfound happiness.
-
-
Love
- By Madgery on 24-02-15
-
Wish Me Luck
- By: Margaret Dickinson
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Fleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain. Posted to a newly built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur as an R/T operator in the watch office, their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF, Ruth. The two girls become good friends, but Ruth, already hurt by the loss of one of the pilots, does not approve of wartime romances.
-
-
Heartwarming story
- By mrs a j harding on 07-02-19
Summary
The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by best-selling author Margaret Dickinson.
Even amidst the horror of the trenches, friendship will survive.
Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother, Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down and raise children. However, when Robert brings home a friend from medical school, Giles Kendall, it seems perhaps Pips might fall in love with an acceptable suitor after all. But the year is 1914, and the future is uncertain. Hearing that her father's friend, Dr John Hazelwood, is forming a flying ambulance corps to take to the front lines, Pips is determined to become one of its nurses and asks Alice Dawson, her maid, to go with her. Robert and Giles offer their services as doctors, and Alice's brother William joins them as a stretcher bearer.
Nothing could have prepared them for the horrific sights they encounter. Moving their unit close to the fighting to offer first aid as quickly as possible puts them all in constant danger. But even amidst the barrage of shelling and gunfire and the unending stream of injured being brought to their post, the love between Pips and Giles survives and blossoms just like the poppies of Flanders fields.
More from the same
What listeners say about The Poppy Girls
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Big bird
- 10-11-19
Didn’t take to the narrator, sorry.
I persevered for a while but I couldn’t take to the narrators voice & gave up.
I normally love this authors books too.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 04-06-22
A beautifully narrated, easy listening novel.
A lovely novel, which made the reader or listener realise the dreadful hardships of the First World War. It equally had family trials and tribulations running through it. Would recommend.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- V_Nerdbooks
- 05-03-22
the poppy girls .
Loved it .What a wonderful story .The first world war was hell for all who was in it .It tell of what some went though . narrated very well .
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Victoria Marshall
- 05-09-19
Slushy rubbish
Everything about this book was awful. Even the narration was not good and was not worth listening to
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ann mathieson
- 24-07-19
Loved it
My grand father was in the first world War but he died when my dad was ten and two sister were eight and six months old all I know was he died because of his war wounds so when reading about what the solders went through I was proud that my grandfather came home e was in the Highland light infintory
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jane Bryder
- 22-11-18
Beautiful and poignant story
Beautiful and poignant story.
The performance spoken clearly and precisely. The story was sad and happy. I recommend this to all ages to read, well done to the author of this beautiful and poignant book.
-
Overall
- Country lass
- 18-08-18
Excellent
This book by Margaret Dickinson is a great read or listen I would definitely recommend it
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 18-03-18
What a fantastic book
I loved this book. Although quite heart rendering at times. I also learnt quite a lot about the first world war
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 24-02-18
A story with huge potential
The story was thoroughly spoilt for me by a narrator that had a very irritating attempt at the characters voices, it was so false. The sing song tone throughout almost made me give up.