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  • By: Polly Heron
  • Narrated by: Julia Franklin
  • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary

Manchester, 1922. 

Belinda Layton is a surplus girl. One of the many women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, with the death of her beloved fiancé, Ben. 

After four years of mourning, she finally feels ready to face whatever her future holds without him. But Ben's family can't countenance her putting him to rest, while all her own family care about is getting hold of her meagre factory wages. When Belinda joins a secretarial class to try to better herself, little does she imagine that it will open up a whole new world to her. 

For not only does she learn to type, but she meets the beguiling bookshop owner Richard Carson....

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