No Silver Spoon, Katie Flynn
No Silver Spoon, Katie Flynn
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No Silver Spoon

Author: Katie Flynn

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 17 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 08/01/2019

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

Dympna Byrne lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Micheál, and does her best to help her family by working hard and expecting little. But beneath the surface there are hidden secrets. Dympna’s mother idolises her clever eldest son, yet her attitude to Dympna is puzzling. So when her family find themselves in desperate need of money, it is Dympna who crosses the water to Liverpool to seek a better life. Immersed in the bustling streets of Liverpool, Dympna’s circumstances begin to improve. But it is a chance encounter with orphaned, half-starved Jimmy Ruddock that sets her on an extraordinary path she never could have predicted…

About Katie Flynn

Katie Flynn is the pen name of the much-loved writer, Judy Turner, who published over ninety novels in her lifetime. Judy's unique stories were inspired by hearing family recollections of life in Liverpool during the early twentieth century, and her books went on to sell more than eight million copies. Judy passed away in January 2019, aged 82.The legacy of Katie Flynn lives on through her daughter, Holly Flynn, who continues to write under the Katie Flynn name. Holly worked as an assistant to her mother for many years and together they co-authored a number of Katie Flynn novels.Holly lives in the north east of Wales with her husband Simon and their two children. When she's not writing she enjoys walking her two lurchers, Sparky and Snoopy, in the surrounding countryside, and cooking forbidden foods such as pies, cakes and puddings! She looks forward to sharing many more Katie Flynn stories, which she and her mother devised together, with readers in the years to come.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shirley

Absolutely loved this story and I found it hard to put down. Recommended......more

Goodreads review by Barbra

I like this author's books - writes a lot about Ireland and Liverpool. Back Cover Blurb: The Byrnes are a fishing family, living a life of grinding poverty on the Connemara coast. Dympna, the only girl, adores her father Michael. She does her best to help her English mother and the family rub along by......more

Very long winded I read till the end but far too descriptive of irrelevant things. A bit slow. Not terrible but I would not recommend.......more