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The Dwelling Place

By: Catherine Cookson
Narrated by: Anne Dover
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When Cissie Brody was 15, fever swept the English countryside, killing her parents and leaving her to care for her nine younger siblings. Rejecting the offers of town officials to care for the children in the workhouse, Cissie is determined to keep the family together and moves them to a cave-like dwelling place on the Fells. 

One afternoon as she is returning home, she is attacked by Isabelle Fischel and raped by her twin brother, Lord Clive Fischel, later bearing him a son. Cissie refuses to give up the child until her sister faces imprisonment for a childish misdemeanour. It is through love and friendship that Cissie learns not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place.
©1971 The Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust (P)2023 Magna Story Sound
Historical Fiction Victorian
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how the future can change from poverty to riches from struggles to freedom from hate to love

loved every minute of the Audio book from begining to the end could have gone on listening but for the end

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The dwelling place,

The dwelling place another great from Catherine Cookson. Looking forward to her next book on audible.

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