Another amazing book in this fantastic series.

After losing her father Madolin decides to get married to one of the regular visitors to his parish Judge Kettle in order to be financially secure despite her Aunt Gerty being willing to give her a home. However it turns out that Judge Kettle is not the nice man he seems to be, he insists on him and his wife sharing separate rooms despite being man and wife and only wanted her so he could have a child. It turns out Gerty knows something about Judge Kettle which makes her dislike him although we don't know what this is or that she knew from the start until much later in the story. Judge Kettle and the family then move to his late Uncles house in Nuneaton where Madolin becomes friendly with the staff who work there. When there daughter grace is born Judge kettle won't let his daughter out of his site and hates it when the little girl spends time with her mother or anyone else, Madolin at this point is ill due to a heart condition that was detected as she was giving birth to grace. Grace however loves her mother very much and is starting to worry about the way her father is towards her. On a visit to Wales to visit Madolin's aunt she makes friends with a Local girl Mavanoi who unfortunately dies of Scarlett fever which Grace also contracts and only just survives. One night Judge Kettle enter's graces room and attempts to make advances toward his Daughter however Madolin and Mable the made assist her and Judge kettle is attacked with a candle stick, we don't find out the real truth of what happened until later in the story. Judge Kettle is now bedridden after a stroke which happened during his attack on Grace and Madolin takes charge and sends grace back to Wales to live with her aunt. When Madolin passes away and Grace comes home from the Funeral she suddenly realises that she wants to become a Nun so on her return to Wales she enters into the local convent which she's visited when she's been visiting Gerty and attended the services there. Grace struggles to adapt to convent life and starts feeling guilty about this and when she meats the local priest Father Luke it causes her to question her faith and cross a dangerous line. The book was narrated by Charlie Sanderson as all of the series is on Audible and she's fantastic with the narration. Although this book is part of a series it can be read as a stand alone novel, Only the first two books Mothering Sunday and Little angel need to be read in sequence as the characters overlap.

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great Story

Just loved all the twists and turns in this story and so nice to have a happy ending. great read. just found the narrators emphasis on the word 'AND' extremely irritating.

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I just love these books

from start to finish I just love listening to how the lives of everyone twists and changes. I've listened to 7 so far this month. first one was Dilly's sacrifice and then started this series of days of the week. love them all

Another great book

Once again this book was a lovely listen and once again brilliant narration. It’s a shame it had to end.

Great wee book

this is actually 0art 3 of a 4 book series however it is a standalone story. completly new characters, locations etc. but if you enjoyed the 1st 2 books I'm sure you'll enjoy this one.

Easy listening

Another Good story by this author, and I also enjoy listening to the narrator who makes the different characters come to life. Would recommend.

Amazing

About cruelty loss and love and beautiful written.
A pleasure to listen to and thoroughly ebjoyable.

A lovely....

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

Narrator spoilt it

I enjoyed the story - a riches to rag story but it was spoilt by the narrator whose voice was very strident and didn’t suit the gentle heroine. I persevered because I was enjoying the story.

Another fabulous story in this series!

Absolutely brilliant. Loved it from start to finish, and couldn’t put it down!

I thought it would continue on with at least one character from the previous book, but unless I missed something, it was a completely different tale. I guess the “series” component relates to the names of the main characters (protagonists) in each book, relevant to the days of the week - according to the rhyme. eg Monday’s child is fair of face etc

Absolutely fabulous tale! I thought the narration was great! To me the Welsh accent was excellent. But as an Australian I totally get the experience of people doing accents on audiobooks that sound nothing like a true accent to a native 😁 No-one I’ve ever heard can accurately mimic an authentic sounding Australian accent 😄

Thank you to both Rosie Goodwin and the narrator Charlie Sanderson for thoroughly entertaining me for the two weeks ☺️