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A Mother's Sacrifice
- Author
- Jennie Felton
- Narrator
- Patience Tomlinson
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2020
- Run Time
- 15 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In the grand tradition of Josephine Cox, Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, comes a powerfully heartrending new saga from Jennie Felton. A Mother's Sacrifice is a story of family secrets, romance, and triumph in adversity.
Will she be able to save her children?
Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three Feathers, she runs a respectable establishment and is known for her generosity and care for her family and others around her - she even took in two orphan girls to save them from a life of cruelty in the workhouse.
So when Martha announces that she has killed her son, Garth, the community is shocked. Garth was undoubtedly a bad seed, but they knew how much Martha adored her first-born. What could have driven Martha to such extreme actions?
Martha refuses to give a reason but her other children cannot believe their mother is capable of murder and they begin to believe that she is protecting someone - maybe even one of them...
For more heartwrenching, heartwarming saga, look our for The Stolen Child, out now!
And don't miss Jennie's Families of Fairley Terrace series, which began with Maggie's story in All The Dark Secrets and continued with Lucy's story in The Miner's Daughter, Edie's story in The Girl Below Stairs, Carina's story in The Widow's Promise and Laurel's story in The Sister's Secret.
(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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One of the nation's favourite saga writers
Lancashire Post
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Believable characters, a vivid sense of time and place, thoroughly enjoyable
Rosie Goodwin
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Fans of Katie Flynn will love this
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
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Writes her stories straight from the heart...evokes time and place with compelling authenticity, and conjures up a feisty heroine and a cast of engaging characters
Lancashire Evening Post
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Has everything a family saga should have - happiness, extreme sadness, love, death, births, etc. but above all it was a real page turner... Thank you, Jennie, for writing such a wonderful book
Boon’s Bookcase
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If you like the style of Catherine Cookson, Josephine Cox or Katie Flynn then you'll enjoy this
Books With Wine And Chocolate
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A great read with a cast of believable characters
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Details
- Author
- Jennie Felton
- Narrator
- Patience Tomlinson
- Duration
- 15 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781472256454
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Family saga / generational saga fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Social and cultural history, Adoption and fostering
Synopsis
'One of the nation's favourite saga writers' Lancashire PostIn the grand tradition of Josephine Cox, Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, comes a powerfully heartrending new saga from Jennie Felton. A Mother's Sacrifice is a story of family secrets, romance, and triumph in adversity.Will she be able to save her children? Martha Packer is much loved by everyone in the village of Hillsbridge. As the landlady of The Three Feathers, she runs a respectable establishment and is known for her generosity and care for her family and others around her - she even took in two orphan girls to save them from a life of cruelty in the workhouse. So when Martha announces that she has killed her son, Garth, the community is shocked. Garth was undoubtedly a bad seed, but they knew how much Martha adored her first-born. What could have driven Martha to such extreme actions?Martha refuses to give a reason but her other children cannot believe their mother is capable of murder and they begin to believe that she is protecting someone - maybe even one of them... For more heartwrenching, heartwarming saga, look our for The Stolen Child, out now! And don't miss Jennie's Families of Fairley Terrace series, which began with Maggie's story in All The Dark Secrets and continued with Lucy's story in The Miner's Daughter, Edie's story in The Girl Below Stairs, Carina's story in The Widow's Promise and Laurel's story in The Sister's Secret.(P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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