Ruby McBride

Freda Lightfoot

Apr 2025 · Bolinda · Narrated by Victoria Brazier

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About this audiobook

Where there’s a rulebook, there’s a rebel ... Ruby McBride has always been on the wrong side of authority. The grand opening of the Manchester Ship Canal is set to be a day of unfettered festivity for Ruby and her younger sister and brother. Even Queen Victoria will be in attendance. But the glories of the ceremony fade into insignificance when their dying mother delivers them to the imposing oak doors of Ignatius House. Abandoned in the not-so-tender care of the nuns, the siblings are soon separated. So when the Board of Guardians force Ruby into a marriage that sends her to a new home upon the Salford waterways, she makes only one vow: to reunite her family whatever the cost.

About the author

Born in Lancashire, Freda Lightfoot has been a teacher and a bookseller, and in a mad moment even tried her hand at the 'good life'. Inspired by this tough life on the fells, memories of her Lancashire childhood, and her passion for history, she has published more than 48 historical novels including many bestselling family sagas and historical fiction. Among her best-known series are the Salford Sagas, the Lakeland Sagas, the Champion Street Market series and the Poor House Lane series Freda has lived in the Lake District and Cornwall, but now spends her winters in Spain and the rainy summers in the UK.

Victoria Brazier is an actress and narrator from Manchester. Recent theatre work includes Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the musicals The Book Thief and Make Good, the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland, and Abigail's Party. Victoria has appeared in many BBC Radio Dramas. Her audiobook narrations include Regency Romances, young adult fiction, and contemporary and period novels se.t in the north of England.

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