The Fifteen Streets
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Anne Dover
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Life on the Fifteen Streets was a continual struggle for survival. John O'Brien grew up in abject poverty, confined to the hardships of the Fifteen Streets. Labouring on the city's docks and trying to keep his loved ones safe from the drunken wrath of his father and brother, this is the only way of life he knows. Then John O'Brien meets his sister's teacher.
Mary Llewellyn is beautiful and elegant, wealthy and privileged. She wants to help the less fortunate through education, in the hope it will enable them to escape their desolate lives. From a casual conversation over tea grows a rare love, but fate steps in when John is accused of fathering the child of a local girl and Mary's parents forbid her to see John. The couple begin to think that gulf between them cannot be bridged....
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- Jayne Plenty
- 30-09-23
The fifteen streets
This is the first book by Catherine Cookson that I hAve read.
It was a beautiful book full of feeling.
The reading is perfect and very emotional.
I recommend this book.
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- Linda
- 25-08-23
Cookson's best!
This timeless story is very well narrated although I think the Llewelyns should have had a Tyneside twang rather than a middle-England accent. However it didn't detract from this wonderful tale of passion and poverty in the North-East of England.
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- m o'connor
- 16-10-24
Great read
I was fifteen when I read this book first time now in my sixties I decided to revisit this book on audio , loved every minute of it I was a big Catherine Cookson fan back in the day and always will be .. highly recommend
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- Laws
- 26-06-23
The fifteen streets by Catherine Cookson
A beautiful emotional story written as only Catherine Cookson can write.
There were many ups and downs , somewhat true to life. It made you laugh and smile but there were also sadnesses which made you cry.
Anne Dovers interpretation brought the whole story alive.
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- Anonymous user
- 25-03-24
Superb
Loved this Catherine Cookson book. Narrated by one of the best narrators, Anne Dover, perfect for Catherine Cookson books. So emotional, Laughing one minute then crying the next.
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- SUSAN PINE
- 06-11-23
Wonderful
My favourite Catherine Cookson story brought alive by Anne Dover’s excellent narration
I would definitely recommend
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- Miss Elle
- 10-09-24
Always Loved This
CC was a master storyteller and especially about people of the Tyne. 15 Streets also delves into spiritualism which is a fantastic and then brave choice of subject and it is covered so well. Catherine regarded her books as her bairns and I think this was one of her favourites. it looks at class division, spiritualism, poverty almost everything. Superb
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