BEFORE I MET YOU

By Lisa Jewell

Synopsis

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caught up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. Years later, in the mid-'90s, her granddaughter Betty arrives in London, hoping to find a mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will. But her search will uncover the heartbreaking secret that changed her grandmother's life, and might also change hers for ever...

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Narrator	Jane Collingwood
Length	15hrs
Catalogue No.	13507
Publisher	Clipper Audio; 2012

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