The Girl from the Docklands Cafe

By: June Tate

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

The Girl from the Dockland’s Café is June Tate's latest compelling saga. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale.

Southampton, 1912.

Jessie is made from tough stuff. At just 19, after the death of her father, she opted not to follow her mother back to Ireland, preferring instead to take charge of her own destiny. When Jessie marries an Irishman and takes over the running of the cafe she works in, it seems as though all the pieces are coming together. But when destiny and a pushy local businessman have other ideas, everything she has worked for is taken away, bit by bit. Will she find the strength to keep fighting for the life she wants in the face of personal loss, gang bosses and embezzlement?

©2018 June Tate (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

Great narration.

The narrator was great, she did a good job of storytelling. The story itself left a lot to be desired. I kept waiting for some kind of a plot twist, or something to make it entertaining, but it was just a lot of bad luck. Bad luck bad luck, and then all of a sudden happy end.although the great depression is right around the corner, and I was expecting it to go onto more depressing storytelling. The writer did a great job, developing the characters and storytelling in general, but there was no excitement, and it was a little predictable.

Success in trying times

Loved the storyline and the talent of the reader. I love historical fiction and stories involving the lives of courageous women.

Too much happened and not enough

Love the narrator and the story was ok at first but did not care for the ending or the fact that the main character kept having tragedy after tragedy occur. It didn’t seem realistic at all

Narration exellent, story got old real fast

I liked the main character, but the romance was terribly predictable and the love interest that bad boy controlling type people seem to like. Not me. I got tired halfway through and barely made it to the end.