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    Ghost Children
    Ghost Children
    Ghost Children
    Audiobook5 hours

    Ghost Children

    Written by Sue Townsend

    Narrated by Rob Crossan

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    About this audiobook

    Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue Townsend

    How can she leave the past behind when he won't let her?

    Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways.

    However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each another again can they avoid the mistakes of the past? And will their future together be eclipsed by those mistakes of yesterday?


    'Gripping and disturbing. Utterly absorbing' Independent

    'Bleak, tender and deeply affecting. Seldom have I rooted so hard for a set of fictional individuals' Mail on Sunday

    'Leaves one gasping for more' Daily Telegraph

    'Engrossing, memorable and moving' Guardian

    'Startling and raw' OBSERVER
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJul 4, 2013
    ISBN9781471242021
    Ghost Children
    Author

    Sue Townsend

    Sue Townsend was born in Leicester, England, in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications, and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she managed to be very well read. Townsend wrote secretly for twenty years, and after joining a writers’ group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television Award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. Following the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, she continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience with seven more volumes of Adrian’s diaries, five popular novels—including The Queen and I, Number Ten, and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year—and numerous well-received plays. Townsend passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight, and remains widely regarded as Britain’s favorite comic writer.  

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    • 2/5
      didnt like this book much. I love her other books though.