Sisters on Bread Street

  • Author Frances Brody
  • Narrator Margaret Sircom
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Run Time 13 hours and 20 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Generational sagas.
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What to expect

Leeds, 1914. Sisters Julia and Margaret Wood are struggling to rise above devastating poverty, while the threat of war looms large over their community. Angry feelings about foreigners have reached boiling point; their German-Jewish father's search for work proves hopeless, leaving entrepreneurial Julia to keep the family afloat by hawking homemade pies on the streets of Leeds.

Her beautiful elder sister Margaret, an apprentice milliner and new member of the suffragette set, seeks a faster way out of the daily grind, pinning her hopes on a rich suffragette's journalist son, Thomas.

But as the war rages on, it is left to Julia to discover the true meaning of courage and family, as she learns to look forward to the start of the new day - and the promise of a better life ahead.

'This beautifully evoked slice of regional experience offers universal appeal . . . a colourful network of characters leaps from the pages' Guardian

'An exquisite novel' Big Issue

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