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Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 3
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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While her husband and daughter work at the Cadbury's Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her hands full at home with her youngest, Martin, and other daughter Sheila, newly returned home with baby Elaine. With Sheila's husband away doing his bit in the RAF, Ann knows she should be grateful to have all her children safe under one roof. But she can't help but fear for their uncertain future as bombs fall ever closer to her Birmingham home.
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Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 3
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Black Country Orphan
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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The early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world’s chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler family is separated and Lucy is taken in by Bertha Hipkiss, another impoverished chain maker, struggling to look after her own family.
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Black Country Orphan
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Girls in Tin Hats
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Two very different girls from this tight-knit community join up as ARP Wardens to do their bit for the home front. Violet Simms lives with her controlling, widowed mother who runs the local pawn shop. At just 20-years-old, Violet longs for friendship, love and escape. It seems her dreams might come true until tragedy strikes on one of the very worst nights of the Birmingham Blitz. Grace Templeton is the eldest in her family of 10 children. Spirited Grace is determined never to become burdened by child bearing and drudgery like her mother.
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Girls in Tin Hats
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 17-04-20
- Language: English
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Mother and Child
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Manjeet Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Jo and Ian’s marriage is hanging by a thread. One night almost two years ago, their only child, Paul, died in an accident that should never have happened. They have recently moved to a new area of Birmingham, to be near Ian’s mother, Dorrie, who is increasingly frail. As Jo spends more time with her mother-in-law, she suspects Dorrie wants to unburden herself of a secret that has cast a long shadow over her family. Haunted by the death of her son, Jo catches a glimpse of a young boy in a magazine who resembles Paul. Reading the article, she learns of a tragedy in India.
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Mother and Child
- Narrated by: Manjeet Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 1
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Frances Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work: and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at 19 and, after losing her child from the marriage, she faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is handed into her care.
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The Chocolate Girls
- Chocolate Girls, Book 1
- Narrated by: Frances Barber
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 26-06-07
- Language: English
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My Daughter, My Mother
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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In 1984, two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties and secrets in their lives: Joanne, a sweet, shy girl, is increasingly afraid of her husband. The lively, promising man she married has become hostile and violent and she is too ashamed to tell anyone. When her mother, Margaret is suddenly rushed into hospital, the bewildered family find that there are things about their mother of which they had no idea.
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My Daughter, My Mother
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 14-03-14
- Language: English
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The Silversmith's Daughter
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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1915. Margaret and Philip Tallis are happily married, have a thriving business and three children, Daisy, John and Lily. At 20, Daisy is an impassioned, headstrong girl, determined to follow her parents’ footsteps in Birmingham’s jewellery trade. While studying at the college for silversmiths she meets an old rival of her father’s. James Carson is married, but Daisy finds herself dangerously drawn to him.... As war tightens its grip on the country, the Jewellery Quarter is thrown into anguish as the men are forced to decide who will enlist.
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The Silversmith's Daughter
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Series: Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-19
- Language: English
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The Narrowboat Girl
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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Maryann Nelson's widowed mother, Flo, sees the opportunity to better her family by marrying the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man, Maryann and her sister, Sal, soon discover that he has another side to him. For Sal, it is too much to bear and she escapes, leaving Maryann to take revenge on Griffin. The chance of a new life opens up when she befriends Joel Batholomew, who works on the canal. Aboard his narrowboat, she finds herself falling in love with her new life.
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The Narrowboat Girl
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-07
- Language: English
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War Babies
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Rachel Booker has a difficult start in life. When her father dies deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends meet but becomes so hard she has little room left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work at the open market in Birmingham, selling second-hand clothes or whatever they can find just to put a little food on the table. But the market has a silver lining: it's there that Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny.
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War Babies
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 26-02-15
- Language: English
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Miss Purdy's Class
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
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In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horrified, but she has the support of her fiance, a recently ordained clergyman. Her early weeks in Birmingham are an eye-opener: at the school she faces a class of 52 children, some of whose homes are among Birmingham's very poorest.
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Miss Purdy's Class
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-14
- Language: English
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The Bells of Bournville Green
- Chocolate Girls, Book 2
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Pretty 17-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962.
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The Bells of Bournville Green
- Chocolate Girls, Book 2
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Series: Chocolate Girls, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 13-02-14
- Language: English
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Family of Women
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
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Family of Women is the story of three generations of women. Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war. Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her.
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Family of Women
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 23-01-14
- Language: English
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The Women of Lilac Street
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Lilac Street was a crowded, sooty-faced, workaday place, the houses full and the streets teeming with children. One thing it was, without a doubt, was full of life. Birmingham, almost a decade after the end of the Great War, and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of troubles.... Rose Southgate is trapped, bringing up her daughter in a loveless marriage. Shy and isolated, she tries to make the best of her life, until she meets a man who changes everything.
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The Women of Lilac Street
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 27-02-14
- Language: English
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Now the War Is Over
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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The Second World War has finally come to a close. Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Booker's life. Her husband has returned, and the family that struggled for survival throughout the uncertain war years is now together. But family life settles into a routine, and Rachel, unsatisfied, starts to yearn for more.
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Now the War Is Over
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 16-06-16
- Language: English
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All the Days of Our Lives
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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It is 1946: The war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures.... Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent, yet hungry for love, she is easily taken in by male charm and is left outcast and alone with her young son. Emma Brown has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her husband Norm to return and meet the son he has never seen. But she soon finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of problems.
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All the Days of Our Lives
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: Hopscotch Summer, Book 3
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 30-01-14
- Language: English
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Birmingham Blitz
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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August 1939. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, would love to have a proper happy family like her Italian friend, Teresa. But Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up and the strangely liberating effect it all has on her mother.... Under Birmingham skies darkened by blackout, Genie shares her fears and hopes with Teresa, keeps her spirits up with her nan and glamorous auntie Lil, and tries to hold her family together. And amid it all, she discovers love....
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Birmingham Blitz
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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Soldier Girl
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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A sequel to The Hopscotch Summer. Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and her drunken mother. Though she has grown into a tall, beautiful woman, Molly is haunted by terrible family secrets. When she is found lying drunk in a gutter, Molly reaches a turning point. She decides to escape by joining the army as an ATS girl.
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Soldier Girl
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Series: Hopscotch Summer, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 14-03-14
- Language: English
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Orphan of Angel Street
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Frances Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Abandoned at birth, little Mercy Hanley shows a fierce determination few others can match. Her inner fire burns brightly, even in the harsh conditions of turn of the century Birmingham. For behind Mercy's pale and haunting face, there is a mind of steel, as her harsh foster mother, Mrs Gaskin, soon discovers. Beatings, threats, and poverty cannot halt Mercy's efforts to improve herself, or to create a new life for Susan, Mrs Gaskin's crippled daughter.
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Orphan of Angel Street
- Narrated by: Frances Barber
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 25-07-07
- Language: English
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Poppy Day
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Judith Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Jessica Hart's life is changed forever with the death of her mother. Her manipulative new stepmother tries to force her into marrying an older man, and to Jess, a bright, pretty, young girl who dreams of finding true love, the idea of being trapped in a loveless marriage is unthinkable. So she escapes to Birmingham to her Aunt Olive, the last remaining connection to her mother. But Jess' security is threatened when she meets a friend of the family and falls passionately in love.
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Poppy Day
- Narrated by: Judith Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-07
- Language: English
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Water Gypsies
- Written by: Annie Murray
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband, Joel, and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the Esther Jane. But the backbreaking work and constant childbearing take their toll on Maryann, and the tragic loss of her old friend, Nancy, followed by a further pregnancy lead her to a desperate act which nearly costs her her life.
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Water Gypsies
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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