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The Tea Ladies

The Tea Ladies: Book #1

by Amanda Hampson

Narrator Zoe Carides

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Length 10 hours 41 minutes

Language English

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She keeps everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...

Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, mild-mannered tea lady Hazel Bates becomes an accidental sleuth, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman she believes to be in danger.

In the meantime, Hazel's job at Empire Fashionwear is in jeopardy. The firm has turned out the same frocks and blouses for the past twenty years and when the mini-skirt bursts onto the scene, it rocks the rag trade to its foundations. War breaks out between departments and it falls to Hazel, the quiet diplomat, to broker peace and save the firm.

When there is a murder in the building, Hazel and her network of tea ladies put themselves in danger as they piece together clues that connect the murder to a nearby arson and a kidnapping. But if there's one thing tea ladies can handle, it's hot water.

Fiction Mystery & Thriller

Amanda Hampson (Author)
Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She spent her early twenties travelling, finally settling in Australia in 1979 where she now lives in Sydney's Northern Beaches. Writing professionally for more than 20 years, she is the author of two non-fiction books, numerous articles and novels The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers and Lovebirds.

Zoe Carides (Reader)
Zoe Carides is an award-winning actor whose career has spanned four decades. As well
as being a talented narrator of many audiobooks including Bruny (Heather Rose), Act Of
Grace (Anna Krien), The Deceptions (Suzanne Leal) and Half Wild (Pip Smith), she's
worked on stage, screen and radio here in Australia and internationally. Theatre highlights
include Influence, Away, Tot Mom (Sydney Theatre Co), The Big Time and Murderers
(Ensemble), Caress/Ache (Griffin), Mike Leigh's Greek Tragedy (Belvoir and Edinburgh
Main Festival/ Theatre Royal Stratford East UK), Karen O's Stop The Virgens! (Vivid at
SOH), Half-Time (Hayes Theatre). TV/film highlights include The Pacific, Janet King, Top
of The Lake, Doctor Doctor, Rake, The Commons, Pieces of Her, Death In Brunswick,
Brilliant Lies, The Black Balloon, Not Suitable For Children, Mystery Road, Alex & Eve,
Interceptor. Zoe has also written/directed short films and songs, releasing an album in
2018.