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Kay Seeley
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The close, loving family life Rose has known is shattered when the country goes to war. Rose resolves to do her bit so, aged 16, she leaves home to train as a nurse in London. There she finds freedom, excitement and a different way of life.
A brief encounter with a soldier opens her eyes to romance, but is he the man she thinks he is? Can first love survive long separation or will Rose discover that her heart belongs to another? When the war brings searing loss and heartbreak, can Rose find the strength to look to the future?
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- De: Molly Green
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Liverpool, 1941. Troubled by a dark family history and the pain of seeing her country torn apart by war, young June Lavender finds new hope when she takes a job at the Dr Barnardo's children's home. There she meets Lizzie McRae, a little girl who is the spitting image of June's sister, who died tragically years before. Against the matron's wishes, the two girls form an unexpected bond as June tries to get the traumatised orphan to speak.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The title doesn't fit the story
- De mrsmlbj en 11-23-22
De: Molly Green
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The Mayfair Bookshop
- A Novel of Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Happiness
- De: Eliza Knight
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford’s seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfectly Voices, Upliftingly Fun
- De Syd Young en 04-15-22
De: Eliza Knight
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The District Nurses of Victory Walk
- De: Annie Groves
- Narrado por: Alex Tregear
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn’t about to make the same mistake again. Alice and her best friend, Edith, are based in the East End, but before they’ve even got their smart new uniforms on, war breaks out, and Hitler’s bombs are raining down on London.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Look at the Role of the District Nurse
- De Jean en 04-30-19
De: Annie Groves
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The Nightingale Girls
- De: Donna Douglas
- Narrado por: Penelope Freeman
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora leaves her overcrowded, squalid working-class home for a better life. But has she got what it takes to keep up with other, better-educated girls? And will her hated stepfather ever let her go? Helen is born for the job; her brother is a doctor, her all-powerful mother a hospital trustee. But will Helen’s secret misery be her downfall? An aristocratic rebel, Millie’s carefree attitude will find her up in front of Matron again and again. Will she ever care enough to make a nurse? Or will she go back to the glamorous life she was born to?
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2 out of 5 stars
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For young girls
- De deborah jernigan en 12-31-16
De: Donna Douglas
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The Beekeeper's Daughter
- De: Santa Montefiore
- Narrado por: Lucinda Clare
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the marquess and marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and what the future holds - that is until her father dies. Her childhood friend, Freddie, has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her father's duties. But there is another man who she just can't shake from her thoughts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic!
- De AlecZander en 05-12-15
De: Santa Montefiore
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The Tea Rose
- De: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 28 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,039
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,878
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,865
East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. Wow wow wow!
- De I like to shop en 04-26-16
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There'll Be Blue Skies
- De: Ellie Dean
- Narrado por: Annie Aldington
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. All she knows are the sights and sounds of London's East End – but Sally swallows her tears as they leave the familiar landmarks behind, knowing that she has to be a Grown-Up Girl and play mother to her six-year-old brother Ernie. Playing mother is nothing new for Sally – their real mother Florrie, a good-time girl, hasn't even come to the station to wave them off and Ernie, crippled at an early age by polio, is used to depending on his older sister.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really great feel good novel
- De Tara Morrissey en 01-07-25
De: Ellie Dean
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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
- A Novel
- De: Louisa Young
- Narrado por: Dan Stevens
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
The lives of two very different couples - an officer and his aristocratic wife, and a young soldier and his childhood sweetheart - are irrevocably intertwined and forever changed in this stunning World War I epic of love and war. Moving among Ypres, London, and Paris, this emotionally rich and evocative novel is both a powerful exploration of the lasting effects of war on those who fight - and those who don't - and a poignant testament to the enduring power of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just read it!! Or rather, listen!
- De Annie M. en 08-31-14
De: Louisa Young
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Shadow of a Century
- De: Jean Grainger
- Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
Mary Doyle arrives in Dublin in 1913, doomed, she fears, to a life of domestic service. Instead, however, she finds herself deeply affected by the social and political turmoil of a fledgling nation struggling for independence. Suddenly, all that was once inevitable is no longer a certainty as she is embroiled in the very heart of the Easter Rising.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!
- De Amazon Customer en 11-14-20
De: Jean Grainger
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Goodnight from London
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 771
In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Light story
- De Bev Holdgate en 08-10-17
De: Jennifer Robson
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The Woman from Paris
- De: Santa Montefiore
- Narrado por: Tara Ward
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral - claiming to be the Lord’s illegitimate daughter. In his will, Lord Frampton has left the priceless Frampton suite of sapphires to this interloper, confirming her claim and outraging his three adult sons and widow. Eventually, however, Phaedra’s sweet nature thaws the frosty relationships. She becomes the daughter that Antoinette Frampton never had and a wise and compassionate granddaughter to the formidable Dowager Lady Frampton.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Worth the time...
- De Esther Cunningham en 09-28-16
De: Santa Montefiore
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After the War Is Over
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boardinghouse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More romance than history
- De RueRue en 08-17-16
De: Jennifer Robson
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East of the Sun
- De: Julia Gregson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
- De Richard en 05-24-16
De: Julia Gregson
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The Forgotten Secret
- De: Kathleen McGurl
- Narrado por: Melanie MacHugh
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 121
It’s the summer of 1919, and Ellen O’Brien has her whole life ahead of her. Young, in love and leaving home for her first job, the future seems full of shining possibility. But war is brewing, and before long, Ellen and everyone around her are swept up by it. As Ireland is torn apart by the turmoil, Ellen finds herself facing the ultimate test of love and loyalty. A hundred years later and Clare Farrell has inherited a dilapidated old farmhouse in County Meath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Forgotten Secret
- De Amazon Customer en 08-31-20
De: Kathleen McGurl
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Silver Wattle
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 384
In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adéla and Klára must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. Later, Adéla becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. But even while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love are never far away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a really terrific read
- De Paddington en 06-21-11
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Evergreen Falls
- De: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 232
A long-forgotten secret, a scandalous attraction and a place where two women's lives are changed forever. 1926: Violet Armstrong is one of the few remaining members of staff working at the grand Evergreen Spa Hotel as it closes down over winter. Only a handful of guests are left, including the heir to a rich grazing family, his sister and her suave suitor. When a snowstorm moves in, the hotel is cut off and they are all trapped. No-one could have predicted what would unfold.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Soooo Boring
- De Merford en 10-09-19