EPISODE · Mar 9, 2017 · 5 MIN
The Boy with the Latch Key by Cathy Sharp
from Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host Abelardo Bechtelar
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy with the Latch Key Series: #4 of Halfpenny Orphans Author: Cathy Sharp Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Heartache and hardship in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street It’s the 1950’s and the orphans of Halfpenny Street have found a new home in the Essex countryside at Halfpenny House. Meanwhile, back among the slum clearances of Bethnal Green, St Saviour’s has now been partially given over to a home for disturbed girls though it still serves as a reception centre for local children who are in desperate need. Amongst these are Archie and his sister June. They’ve been ‘latch key’ kids; fending for themselves while their caring but harassed and careworn mum tries to make ends meet. Now she’s been accused of theft and prison seems inescapable. Archie has no intention of letting his mum go down. He knows she’s innocent and will do anything to prove it. But can he help his mum before adoption, and the authorities, take him and June away forever?
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/309717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy with the Latch Key Series: #4 of Halfpenny Orphans Author: Cathy Sharp Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 9, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Heartache and hardship in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street It’s the 1950’s and the orphans of Halfpenny Street have found a new home in the Essex countryside at Halfpenny House. Meanwhile, back among the slum clearances of Bethnal Green, St Saviour’s has now been partially given over to a home for disturbed girls though it still serves as a reception centre for local children who are in desperate need. Amongst these are Archie and his sister June. They’ve been ‘latch key’ kids; fending for themselves while their caring but harassed and careworn mum tries to make ends meet. Now she’s been accused of theft and prison seems inescapable. Archie has no intention of letting his mum go down. He knows she’s innocent and will do anything to prove it. But can he help his mum before adoption, and the authorities, take him and June away forever?
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