Diney Costeloe
Diney Costeloe is the daughter of a London publisher and has been writing since she was five. First published under the name Diney Delancey, she has written romance as well as historical novels set against the backdrop of war in Europe. She and her husband enjoy traveling and have five grandchildren.
All Books By Diney Costeloe
The Girl with No Name
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrator: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 18 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
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4.11(15742 ratings)
Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, she is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children’s home. With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now?
... Read moreThe Married Girls
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 27, 2022
- Language: English
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3.93(1907 ratings)
Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married and now feels settled in her adopted home after arriving from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war. Meanwhile, the squire’s fighter-pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancee in tow. Daphne is beautiful and charming… and is harboring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphne’s past, but she has worked hard to conceal what could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, she will always care for him, but his return disrupts the village quiet, and it’s not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning.
... Read moreThe Runaway Family
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 14, 2021
- Language: English
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4.16(2619 ratings)
Germany 1937: Fear and betrayal stalk the streets. People disappear. Persecution of the Jews has become a national pastime. When Ruth Friedman’s husband is arrested by the SS, she is left to fend for herself and her four children. She alone stands as their shield against the Nazis. But where can she go? Where will her family be safe? Ruth must overcome the indifference, hatred, and cruelty that surrounds her as she and her family race to escape the advancing Nazi army’s final solution. The Runaway Family was previously published as Evil on the Wind.
... Read moreThe Stolen Baby
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrator: Ella Lynch
- Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 12, 2021
- Language: English
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4.33(2177 ratings)
Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have already begun to fall through the night sky when they realize their infant son, Freddie, has been forgotten in the rush, left to sleep in his crib. Terrified, Vera, his young mother, races to find him and bring him to safety. The next morning, air-raid warden David Shawbrook returns from his watch to find the shelter pulverized, and his family seemingly all dead. Dirty footprints inside their home betray the looters who have rifled through the house. Meanwhile, Maggie waits alone for her husband. Since the death of her infant son, she passes her days at home with neither joy nor aim. But not this morning. For this morning her husband has brought home a child, found abandoned in the aftermath of the terrible raid–a child she is sure is the one she held in her arms so many months before.
... Read moreThe Throwaway Children
- By: Diney Costeloe
- Narrator: Anne Dover
- Length: 17 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 20, 2016
- Language: English
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4.22(7814 ratings)
Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage, not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them-without their family’s consent or knowledge-are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.
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