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Birmingham Blitz
Birmingham (Related to this series)
- Author
- Annie Murray
- Narrator
- Julia Franklin
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 31 July 2014
- Run Time
- 13 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Family saga / generational saga fiction, Historical romance, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
August 1939. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, would love to have a proper happy family like her Italian friend, Teresa. But Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up and the strangely liberating effect it all has on her mother . . .
Under Birmingham skies darkened by blackout, Genie shares her fears and hopes with Teresa, keeps her spirits up with her nan and glamorous auntie Lil, and tries to hold her family together. And amid it all, she discovers love . . .
Read aloud by Julia Franklin, Birmingham Blitz is a heart-warming story of family, friendship and resilience during the Second World War by Annie Murray.
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Details
- Author
- Annie Murray
- Narrator
- Julia Franklin
- Duration
- 13 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 July 2014
- ISBN
- 9781447260240
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Family saga / generational saga fiction, Historical romance, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
August 1939. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, would love to have a proper happy family like her Italian friend, Teresa. But Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up and the strangely liberating effect it all has on her mother . . .Under Birmingham skies darkened by blackout, Genie shares her fears and hopes with Teresa, keeps her spirits up with her nan and glamorous auntie Lil, and tries to hold her family together. And amid it all, she discovers love . . . Read aloud by Julia Franklin, Birmingham Blitz is a heart-warming story of family, friendship and resilience during the Second World War by Annie Murray.
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