Chocolate Girls (Audiobook)

annie-murray

MacMillan Digital Audio

Another heartwarming and compelling saga from the bestselling author of A Hopscotch Summer and Soldier Girl It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . . Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent, yet hungry for love, she is easily taken in by male charm and is left outcast and alone with her young son. Emma Brown has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her husband Norm to return and meet the son he has never seen. But she soon finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of problems. And Molly Fox, after a sad and brutal childhood, found a place to belong during the war, in the women's army, the ATS. Now, the women are no longer wanted and Molly finds peacetime a bleak, difficult challenge. Finding work in guesthouses and holiday camps, she keeps running from herself, in search of a place she can call home. All the Days of Our Lives is the story of three girls who first met in a Birmingham classroom in the 1930s, each facing life with all its joys, sorrows and surprises.

All the Days of Our Lives

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Macmillan

By the author of "Birmingham Rose". Anna grew up with stories of her mother's childhood in Birmingham and of Kate's friend, Olivia. But when Kate died, she left her daughter a final story, which told the whole truth of her life with Olivia. Then Anna discovers how little she really knows.

Kate and Olivia

Contemporary

Pan Books

The third novel in Annie Murray’s “ Birmingham” series. While Genie’s father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie’s little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.

Birmingham Blitz

Pan/Macmillan

By the author of “ Birmingham Rose” . Anna grew up with stories of her mother’s childhood in Birmingham and of Kate’s friend, Olivia. But when Kate died, she left her daughter a final story, which told the whole truth of her life with Olivia. Then Anna discovers how little she really knows.

Birmingham Friends

Jessica Hart’s beloved mother has died in childbirth and her stepmother and father are forcing her to marry the dull local blacksmith. She runs away from her country home to Birmingham, arriving late one night on the doorstep of her poverty-stricken aunt’s tiny terraced house, already home to her four cousins. Ned, a family friend, comes calling one day and he and Jessica fall for each other immediately. But Ned is married and his young wife is expecting a baby...
Annie Murray’s uplifting saga set during the Great War is a moving story of love, remembrance and ultimately of healing.
‘Full of warmth and domestic detail which inspires the reader. Annie Murray brings her characters vividly to life.’ Denise Robertson

Poppy Day

Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come when her mother, Flo, sees an opportunity to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems, as Maryann and her sister Sal soon discover.

The Narrowboat Girl

Poppy Day / Birmingham Rose

Miss Purdy's Class

In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horrified, but she has the support of her fiance, a recently ordained clergyman. Her early weeks in Birmingham are an eye-opener: at the school she faces a class of 52 children, some of whose homes are among Birmingham's very poorest. One of the teachers, the elderly Miss Drysdale, proves an inspiration, and Gwen begins to understand the appalling hardships endured by the children as she is drawn into their lives. Little Lucy Fernandez is a 'cripple' and an epileptic. Through her, Gwen meets Daniel Fernandez, the elder brother in a fatherless household. The family has roots in a Wales' small Spanish community, and Daniel is a young man as fierce and passionate in his emotions as in his social concerns. Gwen falls in love, and is quickly engaged in his battle to win rights for the working classes. As the Brigades are mobilized to fight the Spanish Civil War, Gwen has to face the fact that Daniel has secrets in his past which she would rather not face up to...

Bessie, scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet, one of Bessie's children, marries young and escapes into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war.  Linda grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Torn from her longed-for place at the grammar school, she gives up hoping for anything better. It takes a tragic love affair to make her question the limitations of her life and the secrets that will haunt her family.

Family Of Women

PAN (MACM)

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