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Darkest Before Dawn

7 Ratings

3.9

Duration
13H 37min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

When the Todd's move into a flat on the Scotland Road, they are strangers to city life: their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer’s shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney’s Department Store and young Evie starts at regular school. Then circumstances change and Seraphina takes a job in Lyon’s Corner House. Customers vie for her favours, including an old friend, Toby.

When war is declared, the older girls join up, leaving Evie and Martha to cope with rationing and the terrible raids on Liverpool. Meanwhile, Toby is a Japanese POW, working on the Burma railway and dreaming of Seraphina…

© 2019 Soundings (Audiobook): 9781407983882

Release date

Audiobook: 1 May 2019

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