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Chivers Audio - BBC Audio Books
New Titles
Cassette Tapes
February
2010
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Sarah Challis
Love and Other Secrets
Florence has never forgiven Jane for the circumstances of her birth. She
was an accident, the product of Jane's first and only one-night-stand, and
Flo does not want to know how hard her teenage mother fought to keep her. When
Flo's own, carefully planned, baby arrives, and her glossy, controlled world
is turned upside down, for the first time in her life she turns to her mother
for help. Holding her newborn grandson, Jane is suddenly overwhelmed by memories
she's buried for decades of the tumultuous year when Flo was born: her parents'
fury, the new freedoms of 1960s London passing her by, and the rash consequences
of the overwhelming love for her child. Love and Other Secrets is a warm, wise
and moving tale of the fierce bonds of motherhood.
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Georgina Harding
The Spy Game
On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears
into the fog. A kiss that barely touches Anna's cheek, a rumble of exhaust
and a blurred wave through an icy windscreen, and her mother is gone. That
same morning a spy case breaks in the news
- the case of the Krogers, apparently ordinary people who were not who they
said they were; people who had disappeared in one place and reappeared in another
with other identities, leading other lives. Obsessed by stories of the Cold
War, and of the Second World War, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct
a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was a spy working
undercover. And she might still be alive.
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Rosie Harris
A Love Like Ours
When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies' father is invalided out
of the Great War, the whole family has little choice but to move to the
infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff. Not only faced with a life of
adversity, Ruth and her mother Caitlin also share a secret, one that no-
one else must ever know. Ruth and Caitlin's wages are barely enough to
put food on the table, let alone pay the rent. And an increasingly
neglected young Glynis runs wild. When Caitlin contracts tuberculosis
and dies they have no option but to move into an even more squalid neighbourhood.
But Ruth is still determined to keep their secret at all
costs. That is, until their father dies unexpectedly and an ever more
desperate Ruth and Glynis find themselves living hand-to-mouth.
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