The Bad Penny, Katie Flynn
The Bad Penny, Katie Flynn
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The Bad Penny

Author: Katie Flynn

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 15 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 03/01/2003

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

One wild night in the 1930s, midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. However, Patty spent her entire childhood in an institution, except for the frequent occasions when she ran away, and cannot bear to hand the baby over. But she has few friends and despises all the men around her, so how can she hope to bring up the baby alone?

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 book. Easy to read but very hard to put down. Recommended.......more

Un relato muy particular sobre una joven partera que adopta a una recién nacida cuyo padre, ineducado y lleno de otros hijos, rechaza tras la muerte de su esposa en complicaciones del parto. No tiene el corazón para llevarla al orfanato, donde ella misma sufrió muchos abusos. Soltera y trabajadora, c......more

PATTY es una partera que adopta a una bebé cuya madre muere en el parto. Ella también es huérfana y no quiere que la bebé pase lo mismo que ella. Para cuidarla también contrata a una de sus hermanas y la apoya para que pueda ir a la escuela. Genia total!!! Por otro lado, un viejo crush aparece en su......more

Brilliant This book was brilliant from begging to end and party deserved every bit of th happiness that came her way. Brilliant story from a brilliant author would highly recommend this book.......more