1929 on the remote island of St Kilda, Varie has lost her heart, but not to her fiance.

In love with the wrong man, she awaits the spring with dread, soon to become a stranger's wife, until suddenly she must leave the island,

changing the course of her life forever.

Lose yourself in the stolen hours, the follow-up to the best-selling novel The Last Summer by

Karen Swan.

The Stolen Hours, available now in paperback from Waterstones.

Hello, my lovely betrixters it's me Kate Lister I am here once more with your

fair dues warning do you know why it's because I care I. I do. I really do care. So here it is.

This is an adult podcast book, my adults, other adults about adult things in an adult

way. Covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.

And if you don't feel safer after that little lot then just get out of here don't listen just give us a swerve and for the rest of you let's do it

Oh Hello betwixters the year is 1870 and I am very keen to read this new publication by Dr Edward Tilt it is hot off the medical press.

It's called the change of life in health and disease

a practical treatise on the nervous

and other affections incidental to women at the decline of life.

Hmm, such a snappy title.

Yeah, yeah, I'm not too sure about the decline of life bit there Ed but you do you. This book is a pioneering

for its time study on the menopause and it very helpfully lists the

symptoms that you can expect. Let's see. We have got

hysteria, hysterical fits, crying fits, monthly hysterical symptoms, or what I love this one, giggling fits.

I don't even know what that would be, just rolling around on the floor, having the menopause

and giggling, but you're starting to see a pattern here.

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