The Bermondsey Bookshop

CD - unabridged
(11 CDs)
Product Number: CX6047
Released: 01 Apr, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781838935016
Narrator(s): Anne Dover
Publisher: W F Howes
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'Happiness had never been something she'd looked for. A quiet day with no insults or wallops, that was the best she could imagine.' Set in 1920s London, this is the inspiring story of Kate Goss's struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets. Her mother died in a fall, her father has vanished without trace, and now her aunt and cousins treat her viciously. In a freezing, vermin-infested garret, factory girl Kate has only her own brave spirit and dreams of finding her father to keep her going. She has barely enough money to feed herself, or to pay the rent. The factory where she works begins to lay off people and it isn't long before she has fallen into the hands of the violent local money-lender. That is until an unexpected opportunity comes her way – a job cleaning a most unusual bookshop, where anyone, from factory workers to dockers, can learn to read and then buy books cheaply. A new world opens up, but with it come new dangers, too. Based on the true story of the Bermondsey Bookshop, this is the most inspiring and gripping novel Mary Gibson has yet written.

Author(s): Mary Gibson
Original Publish Date: 01 Apr, 2020

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Author(s): Mary Gibson
Narrator(s): Anne Dover
Product Number MPCD4849
Released: 01 Apr, 2020
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781838935047
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Author(s): Mary Gibson
Narrator(s): Anne Dover
Product Number D6606
Released: 01 Apr, 2020
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781838935030

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