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When We Cease to Understand the World
- By: Benjamín Labatut
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance121
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Story122
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.
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Rambling and unfocused
- By Mooncoin on 10-03-22
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Verona
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Kate Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Story12
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'. Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her - a confining world of wartime restrictions, Viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica has been told that she is 'beyond all possible doubt', a born writer.
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Hated it...
- By Mr Cyril Simsa on 18-08-24
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A Long Way from Verona
- Narrated by: Kate Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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The Van
- By: Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: Brendan Gleeson
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Overall61
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Performance56
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Story54
The final book in Roddy Doyle's highly acclaimed Barrytown Trilogy focuses on Jimmy Rabbitte Sr, who is facing the vicissitudes of unemployment when his friend Bimbo invites him to become his partner in a new venture: a fish and chip van.
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last part of the trilogy, farewell to the Rabbits
- By Nicholas P. on 09-01-17
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The Van
- Narrated by: Brendan Gleeson
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 22-01-08
- Language: English
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The World is Full of Divorced Women
- By: Jackie Collins
- Narrated by: India Thain
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story9
Narrated by Jackie Collins's granddaughter, India Thain *Includes a sparkling introduction to this deliciously wicked novel from the wonderful Veronica Henry, talking about what this book and Jackie means to her* 'SCANDALOUS. OUTRAGEOUS. AND COMPLETELY FABULOUS!' Veronica Henry What would you do...
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What a great read
- By Teeny on 01-07-22
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The World is Full of Divorced Women
- Narrated by: India Thain
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-08-19
- Language: English
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Ein wenig Leben
- By: Hanya Yanagihara, Stephan Kleiner - translator
- Narrated by: Torben Kessler
- Length: 35 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
»Eines der aufwühlendsten Bücher, das ich seit langem gelesen habe.« Denis Scheck »Ein wenig Leben« handelt von der lebenslangen Freundschaft zwischen vier Männern in New York, die sich am College kennengelernt haben. Jude St. Francis, brillant und enigmatisch, ist die charismatische...
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a book greedy for your time
- By Lk on 18-07-24
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Ein wenig Leben
- Narrated by: Torben Kessler
- Length: 35 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-01-17
- Language: German
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Lamb
- By: Bernard MacLaverty
- Narrated by: Conor Mullen
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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Story11
On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation.
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Well read, creepy story.
- By stephen on 28-04-13
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Lamb
- Narrated by: Conor Mullen
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-06-11
- Language: English
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A Bookshop Summer
- The life-affirming new novel from the author of Found in a Bookshop, perfect for book lovers
- By: Stephanie Butland
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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📚 An intriguing, twisting and heart-warming novel set in a bookshop that has an unexpected impact on people's lives. From the author of The Second Chance Book Club and Found in a Bookshop 📚 When the Lost for Words bookshop in York hosts an event for a new reading project, four strangers'...
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Another fabulous story
- By RE Teacher on 23-02-26
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A Bookshop Summer
- The life-affirming new novel from the author of Found in a Bookshop, perfect for book lovers
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
- 'Lovely and lyrical, warm and wonderful' KILEY REID
- By: Dawnie Walton
- Narrated by: André De Shields, Bahni Turpin, David Sadzin, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance68
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Story68
'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES 'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REID 'An absolutely brilliant book' SARA COLLINS A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman...
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So good
- By Amazon Customer on 15-04-25
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
- 'Lovely and lyrical, warm and wonderful' KILEY REID
- Narrated by: André De Shields, Bahni Turpin, David Sadzin, Dennis Boutsikaris, Fiona Hardingham, Gabra Zackman, George Newbern, Inés del Castillo, Jackie Sanders, James Langton, Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Pete Simonelli, Priya Ayyar
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-04-21
- Language: English
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City of Bohane
- By: Kevin Barry
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance127
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Story127
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.
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Impressive Debut
- By YA on 16-02-15
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City of Bohane
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-12-13
- Language: English
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Summer's Lease
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance92
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Story94
It’s high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners and things start to go horribly wrong.
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Brilliant!
- By Mrs S P Wright on 05-07-21
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Summer's Lease
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-03-10
- Language: English
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The Little Paris Bookshop
- By: Nina George
- Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance144
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Story147
On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop - or, rather, a 'literary apothecary', for this bookseller possesses a rare gift for sensing which books will soothe the troubled souls of his customers. The only person he is unable to cure, it seems, is himself. He has nursed a broken heart ever since the night, twenty-one years ago, when the love of his life fled Paris, leaving behind a handwritten letter that he has never dared read.
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Beautiful
- By Shoeless on 15-05-15
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The Little Paris Bookshop
- Narrated by: Ray Sawyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 30-04-15
- Language: English
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Turn Back Time
- By: Eleanor Tucker
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Beauty journalist, and 40-something year old woman, Erica Pells, is tired of feeling invisible and disappearing behind her nematode wrinkles. She’s over the ‘pro-ageing’ articles she is exclusively asked to write (apart from the punny headlines that no one appreciates.) Frankly, she's over most things; getting older, heavy contouring, boring old Wiltshire and her exasperating Mum (who clearly prefers her prodigal brother, Simon).
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Feel good fun
- By V. Johnson on 22-05-26
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Turn Back Time
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Swamp Bones: A Temperance Brennan Short Story
- By: Kathy Reichs
- Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance35
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Story35
A new, exclusive straight-to-digital Temperance Brennan short story from Kathy Reichs, world leading forensic anthropologist and number-one best-selling author of Deja Dead, Bones Are Forever and Bones of the Lost. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan has just arrived in Florida's Everglades for a much-needed break when she is unwittingly thrown into the middle of a deadly case with its roots in the darkest depths of the swamp.
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Great listen!
- By jmharrison8 on 24-04-25
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Swamp Bones: A Temperance Brennan Short Story
- Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz
- Series: A Temperance Brennan Novel, Book 16.5
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 24-03-16
- Language: English
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The Offing
- A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
- By: Benjamin Myers
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall519
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Performance481
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Story480
Bloomsbury presents The Offing by Benjamin Myers, read by Ralph Ineson. FROM THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GALLOWS POLE COMES A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________________ ‘What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and...
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Lyrical, intimate story of an unlikely friendship
- By WhatCathyReadNext on 01-07-20
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The Offing
- A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-10-19
- Language: English
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The Finkler Question
- By: Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance67
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Story69
Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings together reminiscing. Until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into question.
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oh dear....
- By Tom on 08-11-10
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The Finkler Question
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 15-09-10
- Language: English
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Ghost Children
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Story15
Sue Townsend, creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and retreated from the world. However, when he makes a horrifying discovery on the heath, he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each other again, can they avoid past mistakes? And will their future together be eclipsed by the mistakes of yesterday?
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Poor narration
- By Mercutio on 09-08-17
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Ghost Children
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-07-13
- Language: English
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Play. Pause. Murder.
- By: Vidyuth Gargi
- Narrated by: Vidyuth Gargi, Nisa Shetty, Manish Dongardive, and others
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Overall28
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Performance26
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A murder has taken place in a tony Mumbai neighbourhood. A prime suspect, Prashanth, keeps his silence in the interrogation room as Inspector Khan plays the tapes of his therapy sessions. The explosive tapes, surreptitiously recorded by therapist Shaily Gupta, slowly reveal shocking information about Prashanth, about his relationship with his girlfriend Sonya, about the therapist and about the gruesome murder in question.
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Exciting story with a good plot twist
- By Leonieke on 23-10-22
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The Perfect Summer
- By: Juliet Nicolson
- Narrated by: Beth Chalmers
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes' and Nijinskys' gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet in love with love, Keats, marrons glaces and truth) swam in the river at Grantchester.
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Brilliant Social History
- By Sceptical Sorcerer on 14-08-21
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The Perfect Summer
- Narrated by: Beth Chalmers
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-04-12
- Language: English
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Daughters-in-Law
- An enthralling, irresistible and beautifully moving novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Overall23
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Performance9
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Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman? In this emotional and thought-provoking novel, multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope expertly weaves a study of familial relationships with a lightness of tone and real sense of compassion. Fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James...
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Brilliant family saga
- By Michelle on 01-07-11
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Daughters-in-Law
- An enthralling, irresistible and beautifully moving novel from one of Britain’s most popular authors
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-03-11
- Language: English
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