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Audiobooks Narrated by Juanita McMahon
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A touching and emotional novel from the author of Richard and Judy pick YESTERDAY'S SUN.Maggie Carter knows Victoria Park like the back of her hand. She knows which routes around the park are easiest to navigate; she knows what time of year the most beautiful flowers bloom; and she knows which bench by the pond allows you to hear the joyful chatter of children throwing bread to the ducks without risking getting splashed by over-enthusiastic flapping. But she's never seen any of these things. Maggie is blind: her senses of touch, smell and hearing have built an image of the place she loves most in the world, and she's never felt held back by her unseeing eyes. And yet, newly married and expecting her first baby, Maggie has suddenly started to doubt her ability to cope.Elsie is also expecting her first child, but unmarried, alone and without the support of her family, she's terrified her baby will be taken away. When Maggie meets Elsie one day in the park she tries to comfort this distressed young woman - but all is not as it seems. Because Elsie lost her baby sixty years earlier, and now, suffering from the first stages of Alzheimer's, she can't stop re-living the most traumatic event in her life.Determined to bring Elsie back to the present, Maggie sets out to find out what happened all those years ago and bring peace to Elsie memories ... before it's too late.
It is 1953, and although the coastal village of Stepmouth appears as idyllic as ever, a passionate feud threatens to shatter the small community.
Sixteen-year-old Rachel Vale, wilful and unconventional, has fallen in love with the man her brother hates - and when the town is devastated by a vast, unstoppable flood, the Vale family's left broken and irreconcilably divided. Or so it seems...
In War Crimes For The Home we meet an old and forgetful Gloria, living in an old folks home called Sea View. But when she met Ron, he was a handsome American pilot, and she was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz. Now, fifty years on, Gloria starts to remember what happened...
The Washington Post calls CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award winner Val McDermid "one of the bright lights of the mystery field." In Trick of the Dark, forensic psychiatrist Charlotte Flint is in desperate need of a distraction after her testimony in a high-profile case comes under fire, threatening her career. Enter Dr. Corinna Newsam-an old professor of Charlotte's-who's convinced her son-in-law was murdered by her daughter's new lover.
Diana Appleyard writes contemporary fiction that women the world over can relate to. Sara, her seemingly perfect life now shattered, has bought a dilapidated country cottage far away from her stark apartment and the business meetings that once made up her married life. Now she must start over, and for the first time see life through her own eyes instead of her husband's.
'Sometimes life's not about wishes and dreams but about making the most of the situations we find ourselves in....' Life in Devon in 1909 is hard and unforgiving for young Emma Le Goff, especially after the death of her mother and brother and the repossession of her home by her callous landlord Reuben Jago. His son Seth is deeply attracted to Emma, but all his attempts to help her only incur his father's wrath. Finally, a mysterious fisherman, Matthew Caunter, comes to Emma's rescue; he is kind and charismatic, but handsome Seth is never far from Emma's mind...
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.
'One night is enough to swallow a lifetime of lives.'
When Ruth Ardingly and her family first drive up from London and view 'The Well', they are enchanted by a jewel of a place. But the locals suspect foul play in its verdant fields and drooping fruit trees, and Ruth becomes increasingly isolated as she struggles to explain why her land flourishes whilst her neighbours' produce withers and dies. Fearful of envious locals and suspicious of those who seem to be offering help, Ruth grows less and less sure who she can trust.
Fancy getting snowed in with your family over Christmas? No. Neither did the Thorne family. But that's what happens when, on Christmas Eve, the remote village where they've gathered together gets cut off by the worst winter storms of two hundred and fifty years.
Temperatures plummet. Winds howl at ninety miles an hour. Snowdrifts pile high and freeze. Roads become impassable. Electricity and telephone wires frost over and snap. And in a communication black hole where mobile phones don't work, there's no way out till the thaw sets in...
The Three Day Rule is a moving, funny and ultimately optimistic story about a family riddled with secrets who are literally forced into facing up to their problems with each other and themselves. Get to know a family you're never going to forget...
Jane Berry has always dreamed of moving to the country. When she uproots her family and takes them to live in a rural paradise, at first it all seems perfect. But when her marriage comes under pressure the dream starts to fall apart and Jane finds her life spiralling out of control. Then one night a line is crossed that threatens to ruin her and her family forever.
When Patricia accompanies her father, Major George Carstairs, on a trip to Ladakh, north of the Himalayas in the early 1960s, she could never have foreseen meeting Kalden, a local man destined by circumstances beyond his control to be a monk, but fated to be the love of her life. The lovers are determined to be together, but can their forbidden love survive?
The friends you make at university will last a lifetime...For fans of Lisa Jewell, a story of friendship and betrayal from the bestselling Amy Silver
Jen, Andrew, Lilah, Natalie and Dan were inseparable at university, but in the last seventeen years they have hardly seen each other. Until Jen invites them all to her house in the French Alps, where they once spent a golden summer before tragedy tore them apart. When a snowstorm descends, they find themselves trapped and forced to confront their unresolved issues and broken friendships. And Jen realises that perhaps some wounds can never be healed...
