Stacey Halls has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 23 ratings. The most-rated is The Familiars.
The Familiars
Summary
To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect her secret, she must risk her life. 1612 Pendle Hill, England Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she comes across a young local woman named Alice Gray who is gathering herbs. A midwife, Alice promises Fleetwood she can help her deliver a healthy baby. But soon Alice is drawn into the frenzied accusations of witchcraft sweeping the countryside. Even the woodland creatures, the “familiars,” are suspected of practicing the dark arts. Can Fleetwood trust that Alice is really who she says she is? As the two women’s lives become intertwined, Fleetwood must risk everything to prove Alice’s innocence in order to save her own unborn child. The hunt for witches reaches fever pitch. Time is running out. The trials are about to begin. Both their lives are at stake. Only they know the truth. Only they can save each other. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the real Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, this rich and compelling novel draws its characters from historical figures as it explores the lives and rights of 17th-century women, ultimately raising the question of whether witch-hunting is really just women-hunting.
©2019 Stacey Bartlett (P)2019 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited.
The Lost Orphan
Summary
A Sunday Times best seller! Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything.... London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside-down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why. Less than a mile from Bess' poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friend - an ambitious doctor at the orphanage - persuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart. From the best-selling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds.... “A gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hall’s distinctive characters and scrupulous historical detail drop us into a rich, Dickensian world full of desperation and lies, and shows us just how far a mother will go to hold onto her child.” (Serena Burdick, international best-selling author of The Girls with No Names) "The new Hilary Mantel!" (Cosmopolitan)
©2020 Stacey Halls (P)2020 Harlequin Audio
Die Verlorenen
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Zwei Frauen, ein Kind, ein gemeinsames Schicksal - der Sunday-Times-Bestseller erstmals auf Deutsch. London 1754: Die junge Bess Bright, die in bitterer Armut, im Schlamm und Dreck des Londoner Hafens aufgewachsen ist, findet sich von einem Moment zum anderen in einem Alptraum wieder. Vor sechs Jahren musste sie ihre gerade zur Welt gekommene Tochter Clara ins Waisenhaus geben, außerstande, sie zu ernähren. Jetzt, da sie Clara endlich zu sich holen kann, sagt man Bess, dass ihre Tochter schon längst abgeholt wurde. Aber von wem? Im Kampf um Clara muss Bess die gesellschaftlichen Schranken ihrer Zeit überwinden... um durch Stärke und Liebe schließlich zu sich selbst zu finden. >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2021 Piper Verlag GmbH. Übersetzung von Sabine Thiele (P)2021 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH
Die Verlorenen
Summary
Zwei Frauen, ein Kind, ein gemeinsames Schicksal - der Sunday-Times-Bestseller erstmals auf Deutsch. London 1754: Die junge Bess Bright, die in bitterer Armut, im Schlamm und Dreck des Londoner Hafens aufgewachsen ist, findet sich von einem Moment zum anderen in einem Alptraum wieder. Vor sechs Jahren musste sie ihre gerade zur Welt gekommene Tochter Clara ins Waisenhaus geben, außerstande, sie zu ernähren. Jetzt, da sie Clara endlich zu sich holen kann, sagt man Bess, dass ihre Tochter schon längst abgeholt wurde. Aber von wem? Im Kampf um Clara muss Bess die gesellschaftlichen Schranken ihrer Zeit überwinden... um durch Stärke und Liebe schließlich zu sich selbst zu finden.
©2021 Piper Verlag GmbH. Übersetzung von Sabine Thiele (P)2021 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH