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A Mother Forever
- Woolworths, Book 6
- By: Elaine Everest
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance63
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Story64
A Mother Forever is the moving story of one woman's journey through the hardest trials of her life and how the love of friends and family pulls her through. From the bestselling author of The Woolworths Girls Elaine Everest, this book tells the tale of Ruby and how it all began . . . 1905: Ruby...
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Prologue to the series
- By Mrs D from Birmingham on 17-10-24
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A Mother Forever
- Woolworths, Book 6
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Woolworths, Book 6
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 04-03-21
- Language: English
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Dark Shadows Over Coronation Close
- Coronation Close, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall107
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Performance105
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Story105
Bristol 1938. A shadowy presence overshadows Coronation Close, watching and waiting. Jenny Crawford is the first to notice the stranger and wonders why his attention is fixed on Thelma Dawson’s house. When challenged he makes a hasty retreat. Meanwhile Thelma is having trouble with her precocious daughter Mary who is about to leave school and start work. Mary considers herself an adult but to Thelma she’s still a little girl; an attitude resented by her daughter.
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Relaxing.
- By CATHERINE T. on 26-04-24
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Dark Shadows Over Coronation Close
- Coronation Close, Book 3
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Series: Coronation Close, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-01-24
- Language: English
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Signal Moon
- A Short Story
- By: Kate Quinn
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Andrew Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance94
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Story94
Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.
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Simply Brilliant
- By cj on 07-11-22
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Signal Moon
- A Short Story
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Andrew Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-08-22
- Language: English
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A Sunlit Weapon
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 17
- By: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance57
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Story57
September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire when she has the unnerving experience of someone shooting at her aircraft. A few days later, she hears that another ferry pilot has been killed when her aircraft crashed in the same area of Kent. Although the death has been attributed to ‘pilot error’, Jo is convinced there is a link between the two incidents. Jo takes her suspicions to Maisie Dobbs.
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Like threadbare patchwork
- By Hi Ho Silver on 19-05-22
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A Sunlit Weapon
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 17
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Series: A Maisie Dobbs Mystery, Book 17
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-03-22
- Language: English
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The Auschwitz Twins
- The Auschwitz Twins, Book 3
- By: Roberta Kagan
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
A bloodcurdling drama unravels in the shadow of Mengele's dark, twisted obsession. Ernst must face his nemesis as he battles to save Shoshana, Bluma, Perle, and ultimately, his heart. Marcel Petoit has weaponized Gisele's dark secrets. Will she escape his evil grip? Will Herschel and Naomi ever see their girls again?
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Excellent
- By DC on 03-09-25
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The Auschwitz Twins
- The Auschwitz Twins, Book 3
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Series: The Auschwitz Twins, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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The Jam Factory Girls
- By: Mary Wood
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance41
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Story41
The Jam Factory Girls is an uplifting and emotional novel of friendship set in the heart of pre-WWI London from bestselling author, Mary Wood. Life for Elsie is difficult as she struggles to cope with her alcoholic mother. Caring for her siblings and working long hours at Swift's Jam factory in...
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Wonderful
- By TJ on 04-09-25
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The Jam Factory Girls
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Series: The Jam Factory Girls, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
- By: Mary Paulson-Ellis
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance74
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Story74
From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker – Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 – comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing. Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked...
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Brilliant but confusing
- By Amazon Customer on 20-02-23
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The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
- Narrated by: Peter Forbes
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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A Mother's Love
- By: Daisy Styles
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance33
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Story34
Brought to you by Penguin. The heartwarming and joyful Wartime Midwives story of three fascinating mothers. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Nancy Revell and Call the Midwife Three mothers. Three very different backgrounds, and a bond they will never forget The Lake District, 1944, and spring is...
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Beautifully read....
- By Gill Dalton on 17-08-24
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A Mother's Love
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Series: The Wartime Midwives, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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A Great Act of Love
- By: Heather Rose
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
'A captivating story of love and adventure, thrumming with secrets' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist 'Moves elegantly back and forwards in time, and across the world from Paris and London to the Antipodes . . . beautifully written' Sunday Times 'A compelling tale . . . blends historical fiction...
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A Great Act of Love
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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The German Wife
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Rimmer
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance26
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Story26
“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times...
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A great page turner
- By Christineb on 03-07-22
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The German Wife
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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The Girl with the Red Ribbon
- By: Carly Schabowski
- Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi soldiers approach her beloved home. Her family don’t have time to run, but she does. Hiding nearby, she listens to her sister’s screams and – stroking the red ribbon she keeps tied around her wrist – she begins to plot her revenge… Taunted her whole life for being smarter than anyone else in the village, now living in war-torn Poland, being governed by Nazis who think Poles are subhuman and women only good for one thing… Ania now only has her wits to rely on, if she's going to survive.
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Poignant and moving.
- By K Phillips on 14-01-26
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The Girl with the Red Ribbon
- Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-11-24
- Language: English
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Luck of the Draw
- My Story of the Air War in Europe
- By: Frank Murphy
- Narrated by: Jonas Moore
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Story28
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, ‘I was there.’ Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?” Tom Hanks The epic true...
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Thoroughly enjoyed the narration.
- By Jon Bartlett on 02-02-24
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Luck of the Draw
- My Story of the Air War in Europe
- Narrated by: Jonas Moore
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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The Royal Show
- By: Anton Du Beke
- Narrated by: Rachel Hurd-Wood
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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Story19
Keen to rehearse, the company heads to the Seagate Theatre under the tutelage of the company's owner, Ed Forsyth. This is Ed's last hoorah before retiring and he's keen to leave on a high. But his son, Cal, has absconded, leaving his twin sister, Evie, to help manage the company after their mother's death. Hoping to display her best trapeze performance ever, she's also desperate that the entire troupe should succeed. If only her father hadn't brought in another old-timer...
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Enjoyable story
- By Elaine McAleese on 22-04-23
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The Royal Show
- Narrated by: Rachel Hurd-Wood
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-03-23
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Dared to Dream
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance60
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Story60
It is two years before the outbreak of World War 1, and the Oakley family are typical of their time. Andrew has been clerk at a City solicitors for twenty years. Alice, his wife, keeps the home fires burning. Their sons plan on becoming skilled apprentices. And Mabel, their daughter, says she would rather die than go into domestic service like her cousin. She is going to go to train as a secretary. Andrew Oakley little imagines, as he sets off for work one February morning, that their lives are about to change in the most dramatic and tragic fashion.
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Adored this book
- By ellen hovstø on 18-01-23
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The Girl Who Dared to Dream
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-10-22
- Language: English
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Falling Wisteria
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 5)
- By: Laila Ibrahim
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
Kay Lynn Brooke is a wife and mother in Berkeley, California, building a solid future with her husband and family. Then on December 7, 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor throws Kay Lynn’s life, and the lives of everyone she knows and loves, into chaos.
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Falling Wisteria
- A Novel (Yellow Crocus, Book 5)
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Yellow Crocus, Book 5
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-08-24
- Language: English
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Greyhound
- Discover the gripping naval thriller behind the major motion picture starring Tom Hanks
- By: C.S. Forester
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall247
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Performance218
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Story219
Brought to you by Penguin. 'Unbelievably good' James Holland, bestselling author of Normandy '44 The Tom Hanks film originally published as The Good Shepherd and acclaimed as C.S. Forester's wartime classic It's 1942. America has just joined the war. Greyhound, an international convoy of...
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Action packed emotional roller coaster
- By M. McGuirk on 15-11-21
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Greyhound
- Discover the gripping naval thriller behind the major motion picture starring Tom Hanks
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-07-20
- Language: English
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The Guernsey Girls Find Peace
- The Final Heartbreaking Instalment of the Wartime Trilogy
- By: Mary Wood
- Narrated by: Emma Vane
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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The final heartbreaking instalment of The Guernsey Girls wartime trilogy by Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Orphanage Girls series. Their dreams are worth fighting for . . . Winter, 1941. Olivia’s life in Guernsey is uprooted by the Nazi occupation. Forced to flee in the dead of night...
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unbelievable
- By Anonymous on 25-01-25
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The Guernsey Girls Find Peace
- The Final Heartbreaking Instalment of the Wartime Trilogy
- Narrated by: Emma Vane
- Series: Guernsey Girls, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-12-24
- Language: English
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The Winter Soldier
- By: Daniel Mason
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance48
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Story47
Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes...
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Soporific reading of an unusual war story
- By T on 07-11-18
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The Winter Soldier
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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Winter der Welt
- Die Jahrhundert-Saga 2
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Philipp Schepmann
- Length: 35 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Ein neuer Krieg zieht herauf... und drei Menschen müssen eine Entscheidung treffen: Die Welt in der Zeit zwischen zwei Kriegen: Die nachkommende Generation der Familien aus Ken Follets "Sturz der Titanen" erlebt im Hörbuch "Winter der Welt (Die Jahrhundert-Saga 2)" den Aufstieg der Nazis und formiert sich im Widerstand. Der Sprecher Philipp Schepmann lässt den historischen Roman für den Hörer lebendig werden.
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Winter der Welt
- Die Jahrhundert-Saga 2
- Narrated by: Philipp Schepmann
- Length: 35 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-09-12
- Language: German
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The Girl from Donegal
- By: Carmel Harrington, Aoife McMahon
- Narrated by: Amy McAllister, Emma Lowe
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her fiancé, Davey, was lost in the Irish Civil War. But a chance meeting on the wild beauty of Ballmastocker Bay could change everything. Eight decades later, troubled by her future, Saoirse O’Donnell walks on the pink sands of Bermuda’s Horseshoe Bay. When she uncovers a connection to Eliza, all those years before, she hears a story that promises to influence her own heart and her own choice – but also to reveal a long-buried secret.
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Outstanding
- By Jackie McBrearty on 02-04-23
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The Girl from Donegal
- Narrated by: Amy McAllister, Emma Lowe
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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