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The fortune tellers / Maggie Mason; read by Anne Dover.

By: Mason, Maggie 1945- [author].
Contributor(s): Dover, Anne [Reader].
Series: Mason, Maggie, Fortune tellers: 1.Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Magna, 2023Description: 11 sound discs (CD) (approximately 11 hr. 52 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781399128759.Subject(s): Young women -- Fiction | Irish -- England -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Fortune-tellers -- Fiction | Blackpool (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Audiobooks.Online resources: Click here to access online Cast: Dover, Anne.Summary: Blackpool, 1918. Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent, her flashing green eyes see into your soul. Foretelling the future is a gift passed down by her late grandmother and is how she earns her living on Blackpool Promenade. Though she spends hours in a little tent, waiting and hoping for a customer. Trisha is Martha's neighbour and quickly becomes her dearest friend, but she is pregnant and married to a brutal man. And when tragedy strikes, she finds herself alone, her future uncertain. Together, on one of the poorest streets in Blackpool, the girls face poverty, as is their lot, but they're determined to help each other any way they can, and they never stop dreaming of a brighter future. Will a chance encounter on the promenade change their fortunes?
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Dover, Anne.

Blackpool, 1918. Martha is 17 and alone in the world. Of Irish decent, her flashing green eyes see into your soul. Foretelling the future is a gift passed down by her late grandmother and is how she earns her living on Blackpool Promenade. Though she spends hours in a little tent, waiting and hoping for a customer. Trisha is Martha's neighbour and quickly becomes her dearest friend, but she is pregnant and married to a brutal man. And when tragedy strikes, she finds herself alone, her future uncertain. Together, on one of the poorest streets in Blackpool, the girls face poverty, as is their lot, but they're determined to help each other any way they can, and they never stop dreaming of a brighter future. Will a chance encounter on the promenade change their fortunes?

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