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A New Day
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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After a traumatic past, life finally seems to be looking up for Hanna Foster. But war is on its way...
London, 1938. Hanna and Jack Foster had been sent to an orphanage when their parents were killed in a train crash, but were separated when a couple adopted Jack.
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