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Wishes and Tears by Dee Williams
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Wishes and Tears

$17.96

Retail price: $19.95

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Narrator Wanda McCaddon

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Length 9 hours 2 minutes
Language English
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When a naïve encounter at a coronation party leaves sixteen-year-old Janet Slater pregnant, there’s no question in her scandalized parents’ minds of her keeping the baby. Bundled off to a home for unmarried mothers in South London, Janet is about to face the hardest moment of her sheltered life alone. Forced to give her tiny daughter up for adoption, Janet promises her that one day, come what may, she’ll find her.

In the years that follow, it seems that however hard Janet tries, it is a promise that is impossible to keep. Nonetheless, she builds her life around her secret, and Paula, her lost daughter, is never far from her thoughts. Finally, her searching pays off, and the road to their longed-for reunion seems clear—but then a new shadow falls across the fragile happiness of both their lives.

Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey docks. Dee left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen, and was married at twenty. After living abroad for some years, Dee and her husband moved to Hampshire, close to the rest of her family. She is the author of eight hugely popular sagas set in Rotherhithe.

Wanda McCaddon began recording books for the fledgling audiobook industry in the early 1980s and has since narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers, as well as abridging, narrating, and coproducing classic titles for her own company, Big Ben. Audiobook listeners may be familiar with her voice under one of her two "nom de mikes," Donada Peters and Nadia May. The recipient of an Audie Award and more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, AudioFile magazine has named her one of recording's Golden Voices. Wanda also appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Reviews

“Nadia May excels in just this type of light romantic story, and brings all her skills to the fore…Her strong and not always nice women take on clear lives and personalities even beyond the text.”

“Semi-voiced by the expert May, this unabridged romance is not sexually explicit [and] doesn’t glorify single motherhood…It does lead the hearer to an extraordinary number of peaks and valleys experienced by mother and daughter.” 

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