Julia Franklin has narrated 88 audiobooks on Listento.it by 50 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 2,514 ratings. The most-rated is A New Earth.
My Sister's Child
Summary
When her sister disappears, can Ellen Ryan keep her beloved niece safe? For the inhabitants of Liverpool's Milton Street a steady income and a roof over their heads are luxuries. The Ryan family have barely grown accustomed to such things when a fire destroys their father Jack's modest coal haulage business, leaving Jack broken and his family facing ruin. They're forced to turn to Conor, Jack's brother from Ireland, a man whose noisy joviality 17-year-old Ellen Ryan suspects hides a mean viciousness. She's right, and with her mother sick and her half-sister, Annie, becoming increasingly feckless; it's down to Ellen to fight Conor's tyranny. But when Annie disappears, leaving her baby on their doorstep, Ellen begins fear for herself and for the life of the innocent child she has learnt to love.…
©2000 Lyn Andrews (P)2012 Headline Digital
Gifts for Our Time
Summary
The final instalment in the Rivenshaw series set at the end of WWII in Lancashire. Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies. While her will cannot be found, her money-grabbing niece appears out of the blue to claim her inheritance and turfs Christa out, with only a suitcase to her name. The prejudice against Germans still runs high in England, and Christa is unable to secure a job or a place to stay. Luck comes her way when a lady she saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher's friend Daniel's mother. Taking pity on Christa, they take her to Rivenshaw, where they plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm. There, Christa is welcomed with open arms, and she soon develops a love for the place, the people and Daniel. But Esherwood is not the trouble-free sanctuary she first thinks. Determined to do their bit for soldiers returning from the war, they have agreed to allow the council to build prefabs on some of Esherwood's garden. But an empire-building town planner seems set on taking all of Mayne's land for the war effort. Mayne has also discovered a secret door at the back of the old Nissen hut, with a complicated locking mechanism that has local locksmiths dumbfounded. Just what is hidden behind the door to warrant such high security?
©2019 Anna Jacobs (P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
The Night Visitor
Summary
"A complex, creepy, and insidious novel about ambition." (The Guardian) "Readers of Ruth Ware and Gillian Flynn will love it." (LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review) "Fascinating, brilliant, creepy." (Good Housekeeping) If you had the perfect life...how far would you go to protect it? Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life of her dreams, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. Only one other person knows that Olivia's perfect life is in fact a desperate tangle of lies: Vivian Tester, the socially awkward, middle-aged housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary of a pioneering female surgeon on which Olivia's new biography is based. In a gripping narrative that shifts between London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, Olivia and Vivian will learn knife-edged truths about themselves and discover just how far each will go to protect her reputation.
©2018 Lucy Atkins (P)2019 Hachette Audio
The Dungeon House
Summary
Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife, Lysette, is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy and live with their 16-year-old daughter, Amber, in the magnificent Dungeon House. When Lysette tells Malcolm their marriage is over, he snaps and takes out the old rifle he has been hiding.... Back to the present day, and Hannah Scarlett's cold case team are looking into the disappearance of Lily Elstone, whose father was Malcolm Whiteley's accountant. Their investigation coincides with the disappearance of another teenage girl, Shona Whiteley, daughter of Malcolm's nephew, Nigel. As Hannah's team dig down into the past, doubts arise about what exactly happened at the Dungeon House 20 years ago....
©2015 Martin Edwards (P)2015 Soundings
Rendez-Vous in Cannes
Summary
From the best-selling author of Villa of Sun and Secrets. A sweeping, bittersweet love story amidst the glitz and the glamour of the French Riviera. Two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas behind the scenes of the Cannes Film Festival. Newly in love, Anna Carson returns to the festival for the first time in nearly 40 years hoping to reconcile her past with her present-day happiness. Journalist Daisy Harris is looking for a big scoop at her first festival and is determined to embrace her new single status amongst all the glitz and glamour. Behind the champagne and parties, secrets from the past are bubbling to the surface, and difficult decisions need to be taken. One thing's for certain - by the end of the film festival their lives will have changed forever....
©2020 Jennifer Bohnet (P)2020 Boldwood Books
The Horror of Supervillainy
Summary
Gary Karkofsky, a.k.a. Merciless: The Supervillain Without MercyTM, has decided to give up supervillainy and embrace the path of righteousness. Unfortunately, he's terrible at it, and no one wants him to be their superheroic protector. That all changes when a talking raven arrives with the perfect quest to make his mark: Rescue the president's daughter from Dracula. Unfortunately, Gary is being led into a trap. The location of Dracula's castle is in Satan Swamp, which is where Gary suffered one of the few defeats of his life. There's also a camp full of superpowered children, the return of alternate reality allies, a pair of psycho killers in love, and the return of an old enemy. Enjoy the latest installment of the Supervillainy saga!
©2021 Charles Phipps (P)2021 David N. Wilson
One Summer in Monte Carlo
Summary
Monte Carlo means different things to different people - a billionaires' playground overflowing with glitz and glamour, but also where dangerous secrets hide. For Nanette Weston and her then fiancé, F1 racing driver Zac Ewart, their dream life came to an abrupt halt three years ago following a car accident which Zac walked away from but left Nanette being airlifted back to the UK, never to return and never to see her fiancé again. Monte Carlo was a place she wanted to forget, not revisit. But when her friend and employer Vanessa asks Nanette to look after her children in the Principality for a few months, Nanette knows she has no choice but to return. As the F1 circus once again comes to town, with Zac in pole position, mistakes of the past leave legacies for the future.... This book was previously published as Follow Your Star by Jennifer Bohnet.
©2021 Jennifer Bohnet (P)2021 Boldwood Books Ltd
A French Affair
Summary
Brand new from the best-selling author of Villa of Sun and Secrets. What will be will be. Belinda Marshall’s idyllic teenage life in Brittany, France, fell apart when her parents dramatically separated and her mother took her back to England. Fast forward 35 years when Belinda’s world is once again turned upside down. It’s the week before Christmas and her employer 'surprises’ Belinda by asking for her help to rejuvenate their latest investment, a run-down campsite in Brittany. Memories and anxieties that had lain dormant for years suddenly begin to resurface. As secrets from a lost life threaten to overwhelm her, there is a realisation that maybe she wasn’t told the whole truth all those years ago. Can Belinda reconcile her emotions and find happiness once more in the place she so loved and called home?
©2020 Jennifer Bohnet (P)2020 Boldwood Books