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Hometown Tales: Yorkshire
- Narrated by: Cathy Rentzenbrink, Elizabeth Bower
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Art & Literature
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Summary
Original tales by remarkable writers.
Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today.
Some of the tales are fiction, and some are narrative nonfiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.
In this audiobook on Yorkshire, you'll find two unique tales: an intimate account of returning to her childhood home of Snaith by Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love, and from new voice Victoria Hennison, a deeply personal memoir of growing up in the village of Holme-on-Spalding Moor.