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Title: Sisters on Bread Street

Author: Frances Brody

Narrator: Margaret Sircom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-16

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Leeds, 1914. Sisters Julia and Margaret Wood are struggling to rise above devastating poverty while the threat of war looms large over their community. Angry feelings about foreigners have reached a boiling point; their German-Jewish father's search for work proves hopeless, leaving entrepreneurial Julia to keep the family afloat by hawking homemade pies on the streets of Leeds.

Her beautiful elder sister, Margaret, an apprentice milliner and new member of the suffragette set, seeks a faster way out of the daily grind, pinning her hopes on a rich suffragette's journalist son, Thomas. But as the war rages on, it is left to Julia to discover the true meaning of courage and family as she learns to look forward to the start of the new day - and the promise of a better life ahead.

Critic Reviews:

"Frances writes strong, believable characters and has a meticulous eye for period detail." (Leah Fleming)

"Frances Brody captures the tragedies and joys of old working-class Leeds in vivid and heartfelt storytelling." (Elizabeth Gill)

"Frances Brody makes every turn of the page a step back into time in her wonderfully sumptuous sagas...storytelling at its very best." (Diane Allen)

Members Reviews:

A wonderful saga from an outstanding writer!

Frances Brody is one of the most accomplished and talented writers of crime fiction writing today, with her Kate Shackleton series becoming a firm favourite with readers the world over, but this outstanding storyteller has also written a string of dramatic, engrossing and atmospheric historical sagas that are now being reissued which are sure to delight and enthrall new and old fans alike.

Sisters on Bread Street is set in the earlier years of the twentieth century in working class Leeds where poverty was rife and commonplace, money was scarce, starvation a regular occurrence and jobs few and far between. Keeping the wolf from the door and a roof above oneâs head was a challenge that became increasingly difficult as the years went by and the gathering clouds of the First World War approached at an alarming rate â and nobody knows this better than Julia Wood and her family. The daughter of a German-Jewish father, Julia mightâve grown up surrounded by her parentsâ love and affection, but she had quickly realised that the tolerance and respect which her parents had instilled in her at a very young age was not so easily replicated outside of the four walls of her own house. With her father a frequent victim of prejudice and xenophobia, Julia had to grow up fast and learn to look after herself. With her mother having passed away, her father having lost his job at the butcherâs and opportunities for advancement being limited, the burden of responsibility lies heavily upon her shoulder, but Julia is determined to do her utmost for her family â even if it means putting her own happiness on the back burner.

Juliaâs sister Margaret, however, is nowhere near as selfless. Beautiful, self-absorbed and avaricious, Margaret yearns for the day she can escape the stifling confines of life on Bread Street and dreams of one day becoming rich and not living in abject poverty. An apprentice miller who turns her nose up at helping Julia and her father with their pie-making business, she is constantly on the look out for a way of escaping the daily grind.