The menagerie / Catherine Cookson; read by Anne Dover.
By: Cookson, Catherine.
Contributor(s): Dover, Anne [Reader].
Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Magna, 2022Description: 9 sound discs (CD) (approximately 9 hr.) : digital ; 12 cm.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781399126762.Subject(s): Coal mines and mining -- Fiction | Coal miners -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Audiobooks.Online resources: Click here to access online Cast: Dover, Anne.Summary: The Broadhursts were a mining family and, to outsiders, they appeared to be happy, loyal and united. But it was Jinny - wife, mother, sister - who held them together. Her pride and her strength prevented their fears and hates from overwhelming them. There was Jack, her younger son, trapped into marrying a shrew; and Lottie, her sister, who was not quite... normal. And there was Larry, the bright one, the handsome one, who was obsessed with the memory of the girl who had jilted him. She was married now, they said, and happily too. But now he was suffused with anger, together with pain and a reborn longing. He vowed she would not make a laughing stock of him again. But could he do what his pride told him he must...?| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Audiobooks | Chester Lane Library Talking Book | Available | 38055013154851 |
Story Sound CD
Dover, Anne.
The Broadhursts were a mining family and, to outsiders, they appeared to be happy, loyal and united. But it was Jinny - wife, mother, sister - who held them together. Her pride and her strength prevented their fears and hates from overwhelming them. There was Jack, her younger son, trapped into marrying a shrew; and Lottie, her sister, who was not quite... normal. And there was Larry, the bright one, the handsome one, who was obsessed with the memory of the girl who had jilted him. She was married now, they said, and happily too. But now he was suffused with anger, together with pain and a reborn longing. He vowed she would not make a laughing stock of him again. But could he do what his pride told him he must...?
Adult.