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The Beautiful and Damned
- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Patch, a young yet unambitious graduate from Harvard University, moves to New York and soon meets fellow socialite and flapper, Gloria Gilbert. Infatuated by her beauty, Anthony soon proposes to Gloria, and the pair embark on a doomed whirlwind romance. Their marriage is combative and tense; Anthony expects Gloria to be more domesticated while Gloria expects Anthony to fund her extravagant lifestyle.
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Excellently read, an interesting minor Fitzgerald
- By QP1 on 07-10-25
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The Beautiful and Damned
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Story Collector
- Unravel the sweeping, spellbinding tale of family drama, love and betrayal
- By: Iris Costello
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin, Kristin Atherton, Rosina Aichner
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Brought to you by Penguin. THREE LOST SOULS. A LONG-BURIED SECRET. THE TRUTH THAT COULD SET THEM FREE... ----- London, 1915: Tarot reader Katerina is trying to hold her life together amid the wartime chaos. When she opens a bakery that offers divination alongside sweet treats, she is hailed as a...
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So interesting
- By Patricia on 12-04-24
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The Story Collector
- Unravel the sweeping, spellbinding tale of family drama, love and betrayal
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin, Kristin Atherton, Rosina Aichner
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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The Stolen Hours
- Escape with an epic, romantic tale of forbidden love
- By: Karen Swan
- Narrated by: Paula Masterton
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance78
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Story78
'A wonderfully satisfying read: love, passion, drama, violence, menace and peril, and characters you fall in love with' – Santa Montefiore An Island full of secrets . . . Summer, 1929. Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it...
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Loved this second book in the series
- By Penny on 08-03-24
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The Stolen Hours
- Escape with an epic, romantic tale of forbidden love
- Narrated by: Paula Masterton
- Series: Wild Isle, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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The Guardian Angel
- Weardale Sagas, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Gill
- Narrated by: Julia Barrie
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance57
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Story57
Alice Lee, middle-aged and unmarried, is the only volunteer when the minister asks his congregation to help young Zebediah Bailey. Zeb is in prison for a ghastly crime, and the townspeople would rather forget than forgive this local lad who lost his way. But Alice dutifully writes to him every week, sending him sweets from the little shop that is her livelihood: Alice Lee's Confectionary. She won't admit she's lonely, but since her parents' deaths, making and selling sweets has become her whole world.
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Captivating
- By EskrimaDiva on 26-05-23
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The Guardian Angel
- Weardale Sagas, Book 1
- Narrated by: Julia Barrie
- Series: The Weardale Saga, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-04-17
- Language: English
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Dear Miss Lake
- A heartwarming wartime story of courage and friendship
- By: AJ Pearce
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance36
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Exquisitely narrated by Anna Popplewell (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) 'Good hearted, touching, funny and emotional, it’s the perfect escape and really should be prescribed as a national tonic' - Jill Mansell 'Love and laughter for everyone . . . perfect, heart-warming' - Sally Page...
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Warm, engaging and uplifting
- By Jenn on 13-04-26
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Dear Miss Lake
- A heartwarming wartime story of courage and friendship
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Series: The Wartime Chronicles, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-07-25
- Language: English
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Winter on the Mersey
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance44
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Story45
The dramatic story of a young woman’s war – full of heartache and triumph from the bestselling author of Christmas on the Mersey and London Belles Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead of thinking about romance, is determined to do her bit for King and country. Her life as a...
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Bliss
- By adelle on 07-03-24
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Winter on the Mersey
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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Spare Brides
- By: Adele Parks
- Narrated by: Tor Leijten
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
Hope. Glamour. Independence. A new era has begun… ‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist ***** With the Great War behind them, four friends are ready to live again. Lydia, a society beauty, has everything – wealth, status and a husband who survived...
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Poor narration
- By mary farnell on 21-06-23
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Spare Brides
- Narrated by: Tor Leijten
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Iceberg
- By: Gun Brooke
- Narrated by: Jessica Jeffries
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A recent widow, Lady Arabella Grey hires the young and unconventional Zandra Lancaster as governess to her children. Despite Zandra's impressive recommendations, Arabella is skeptical and unimpressed by Zandra's youth and artistic nature. But Zandra is brilliant with her daughters, and Arabella's inexplicably drawn to her.
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Beautiful love story
- By Anonymous on 27-04-26
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Iceberg
- Narrated by: Jessica Jeffries
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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The House at Riverton
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance132
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Story132
Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace’s mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge – something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
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Too long
- By Manx Miss on 04-07-23
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The House at Riverton
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-02-23
- Language: English
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A Wartime Wedding in the Dales
- Made in Yorkshire, Book 4
- By: Betty Firth
- Narrated by: Claire Storey
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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January 1942. The new year brings heartache for Bobby Bancroft. Not only must she say goodbye to her fiance Charlie as he is called up, she must also leave behind her job at THE TYKE magazine to join the war effort, as conscription of women is rolled out across the country. But there are hopeful times ahead as Bobby's friends, Topsy and Teddy, get engaged. And when Bobby finally names a date for her own nuptials, the village is cheered by the prospect of weddings to lift the gloom of wartime.
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A Wartime Wedding in the Dales
- Made in Yorkshire, Book 4
- Narrated by: Claire Storey
- Series: Made in Yorkshire, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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Dime quién soy [Tell Me Who I Am]
- By: Julia Navarro
- Narrated by: Daniel Albiac, María Belén Roca
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance66
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Story67
Un periodista recibe la propuesta de investigar la vida de su bisabuela, Amelia Garayoa, una mujer de la que sólo sabe que huyó abandonando a su marido y a su hijo poco antes de que estallara la guerra civil española. Para rescatarla del olvido deberá reconstruir su historia desde los cimientos encajando, una a una, todas las piezas del inmenso y extraordinario puzle de su vida.
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Dime quién soy Estupendo!
- By Claire on 29-07-17
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Dime quién soy [Tell Me Who I Am]
- Narrated by: Daniel Albiac, María Belén Roca
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-06-14
- Language: Spanish
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War Cry
- By: Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
- Narrated by: Seån Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall449
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Performance401
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Story401
‘That time is upon us. I can feel it coming. That evil barbarian will not be satisfied until he has engulfed the whole world in war and death. I fear for us all.’ In a triumphant return to his much-loved Courtney series, Wilbur Smith introduces us to the bravest new member of the famed...
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Not bad Wilbur
- By Peter Scholey on 04-04-17
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War Cry
- Narrated by: Seån Barrett
- Series: Courtney, Book 15
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 23-03-17
- Language: English
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The House Across the Street
- By: Lesley Pearse
- Narrated by: Rosie Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall227
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Performance199
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Story198
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse, read by Rosie Jones. Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress...
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Dull dross
- By Kindle Customer on 19-11-18
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The House Across the Street
- Narrated by: Rosie Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-09-18
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Visit
- By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the beloved author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. 'She helps us to do the...
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The Beautiful Visit
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-04-26
- Language: English
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Clover's Child
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Rosie Cavaliero
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance84
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Story85
When 18-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last. Soloman Arbuthnott is a man who can bring colour and warmth to her drab life in 60s London - and what's more, he is a young, handsome soldier with excellent prospects. They stroll hand-in-hand by the Serpentine, dance cheek-to-cheek in Soho's smoky bars, and begin to plan their idyllic future, growing old together in Sol's ancestral home on the island of St Lucia. But this is 1961. East End girls don't date West Indian boys, let alone fall in love with them and leave the country.
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Wonderful story.
- By rachael on 21-01-17
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Clover's Child
- Narrated by: Rosie Cavaliero
- Series: No Greater Love, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-07-13
- Language: English
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When We Had Wings
- By: Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, Susan Meissner
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival. The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita...
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Amazing story so well written
- By Helen A C on 18-04-26
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When We Had Wings
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Garden
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Anna Skellern
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Story28
A lost child: On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her 21st birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.
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Great twisty story
- By Anonymous on 16-04-26
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The Forgotten Garden
- Narrated by: Anna Skellern
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-07-23
- Language: English
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The Resistance Daughter
- An utterly sweeping and unputdownable WW2 historical fiction debut novel, based on a true story
- By: Joanne Kormylo
- Narrated by: David Blair, Sarah Lambie
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by true stories of WWII, don't miss this emotional and poignant historical novel debut of courage against all odds, perfect for fans of Anna Stuart and Soraya M Lane. Poland, 1942. After witnessing the destruction of her hometown in Warsaw, Anna Kowalski joins the Polish Resistance. She...
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The Resistance Daughter
- An utterly sweeping and unputdownable WW2 historical fiction debut novel, based on a true story
- Narrated by: David Blair, Sarah Lambie
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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Emma’s Secret
- By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance48
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The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns… The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns… At the centre of this sweeping saga stands Paula O'Neill, beloved granddaughter of Emma and the guardian of her vast business empire. Paula believes that...
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Emma’s Secret
- By Anonymous on 28-04-25
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Emma’s Secret
- Narrated by: Bea Holland
- Series: Harte Family Saga, Book 4
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-01-18
- Language: English
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The District Nurses Make a Wish
- The District Nurses, Book 5
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance47
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For the district nurses of Victory Walk, there's been little time to bask in the triumph of D-day as London is facing a new threat - the buzz bombs. Everyone is terrified, never knowing where the next one will strike. Into this tense atmosphere, new nurse Iris must make her mark. She’s had more experience of nursing than many, but since arriving in East London from the countryside, she has struggled to fit in with the other staff. Meanwhile, Alice is facing an agonising wait to hear if her boyfriend, Joe, has survived D-day.
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how people looked after each other
- By Dave Arnold on 11-05-25
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The District Nurses Make a Wish
- The District Nurses, Book 5
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Series: The District Nurses, Book 5
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-10-21
- Language: English
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