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    Darkest Before Dawn
    Darkest Before Dawn
    Darkest Before Dawn
    Audiobook13 hours

    Darkest Before Dawn

    Written by Katie Flynn

    Narrated by Anne Dover

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    About this audiobook

    When the Todd's move into a flat on the Scotland Road, they are strangers to city life: their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer’s shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney’s Department Store and young Evie starts at regular school. Then circumstances change and Seraphina takes a job in Lyon’s Corner House. Customers vie for her favours, including an old friend, Toby. When war is declared, the older girls join up, leaving Evie and Martha to cope with rationing and the terrible raids on Liverpool. Meanwhile, Toby is a Japanese POW, working on the Burma railway and dreaming of Seraphina…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundings
    Release dateDec 1, 2005
    ISBN9781407983882
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    • 5/5
      I love this book by Katie Flynn with Anne Dover as the narrator!

      The book cover that is displayed is the wrong book cover of a book by the same title.