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The Girl Who Dared to Dream

By: Diney Costeloe
Narrated by: Bea Holland
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The captivating new novel from Diney Costeloe, bestselling author of The Throwaway Children and The Girl With No Name.

London, 1912.

It is two years before the outbreak of World War 1, and the Oakley family are typical of their time. Andrew has been clerk at a City solicitors for twenty years. Alice, his wife, keeps the home fires burning. Their sons plan on becoming skilled apprentices. And Mabel, their daughter, says she would rather die than go into domestic service like her cousin. She is going to go to train as a secretary.

Andrew Oakley little imagines, as he sets off for work one February morning, that their lives are about to change in the most dramatic and tragic fashion. In one fateful instant the family dreams are crushed. And Mabel will have to swallow her pride to take that position as in-between maid after all. It is every bit as unpleasant as she expected. But help is going to come from a quite unexpected direction and bring her dreams to life again.

Brilliant storytelling, wonderful characters, here is everything we have come to love about a Diney Costeloe novel.

©2022 Diney Costeloe (P)2022 Head of Zeus 20th Century Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction World War I Dream

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Not taxing, easy to follow storyline set in 1912, A bit of an upstairs down stairs, rich and poor family saga, but very enjoyable.

Great narration added to a good all round feel good book, which is rather nice every now and again.

Feel good story

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the story telling was easy to follow a nice pace of words easy to follow all Characters came to life.
We definitely look for this author again.

the story telling was easy to listen to

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I loved storyline and unfolds, characters and narration.
Great listen, takes me straight into the story and time…

Loved it

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i really thus book. the characters .the voices. couldn't stop listening. looking forward to the follow on book.

gripping

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A great story, set in an era when women were only fit to work in service, I will be listening to this again, it glades the heart.

Determind to succeed

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I love Mable! Everything about the book is amazingly written, didn't want it to end! Hope the next one I read will be just as good.

Adored this book

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Super storyline, icreally enjoyed listening to it
The narrator was really good with the different voices and accents. highly recommend 👌

Loved every minute

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storyline from start to finish with some great characters and antics within the book. The narrator was very good at using different voices for the characters.

A lovely....

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A great atmospheric story.. She always gets the feel of the period. Good characters and well read.

Another great story by Diney

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I have never read anything from this author... But I loved this so much I have loaded 3 more of her book on my phone to listen to... love her style of writing and the story line is brought to life by the fabulous narrator , highly recommend her work..

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