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    What Once Was True
    What Once Was True
    What Once Was True
    Audiobook11 hours

    What Once Was True

    Written by Jean Grainger

    Narrated by Caroline Lennon

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    About this audiobook

    This historical novel follows two families, one of grandeur and one of working class, as they navigate the conflicts associated with the looming war ahead.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateJun 25, 2019
    ISBN9781666573053
    What Once Was True
    Author

    Jean Grainger

    Jean Grainger is an Irish bestselling author who specializes in contemporary as well as historical fiction. Once a tour guide for Ireland, she went on to become an English and history teacher in a secondary school for boys. The winner of the 2016 Author's Circle Historical Novel of Excellence, she currently resides with her husband and children in rural County Cork, Ireland.

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      Lovely book and well read. Also gives a good understanding of the caltural transition from separation vetween social classes to what we are today