Random Home presents the audiobook edition of the Shilling for a Wife by Emma Hornby, go through by Penelope Freeman.

Sally Swann thought life couldn’t get much worse. A single coin changed hands.

A dismal cottage in the center of Bolton, Lancashire, has been Sally’s jail since Joseph Goden ‘bought’ her through the workhouse simply because his wife. A drunkard and bully, Joseph guidelines her using a rod of iron, using fists and threats to keep her in check.

When Sally gives delivery, however, she understands she should do in regards to a Shilling for the Wife anything to save her child from her husband’s handbags. She manages to flee, and taking her baby, flees for the belching chimneys of Manchester, searching for her only relative.

But using the threat of breakthrough by Joseph, who’ll stop at nothing to come across her, Sally have to combat with every ounce of strength she has to protect herself and her son, and finally end up being with the person who all truly loves her. For a fresh start will not come with out a price .

A SHILLING FOR ANY WIFE is powerful, absorbing storytelling that’s perfect for followers of saga by Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Maggie Hope.