The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson ~ Full Audiobook [family]

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08/04/23

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The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson audiobook.

Genre: family

The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as 'Little House on the Prairie - but for adults' the novel follows a group of Scottish families who pioneer the Iowa prairie in the 1860’s. The main storyline concerns Wully, the eldest McLaughlin son, who returns home from the Civil War to find that his sweetheart, Chirstie, has experienced an unspeakable tragedy that will profoundly affect the couple's lives. Their story is one of shame and honor, secrets and guilt, fear and loathing, revenge and forgiveness. But perhaps the stars of the novel are the strong older women such as Wully’s mother, Isobel, whose love and matriarchal strength keeps the family together as well as Chirstie’s stepmother, Barbara, who finds ways to make her good-for-nothing husband keep his promises. Interlaced with the plots are richly detailed descriptions of frontier prairie life, the love that families share, and the relationships within the Scottish immigrant community.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:33:13) Chapter 02

(01:03:42) Chapter 03

(01:34:38) Chapter 04

(02:06:27) Chapter 05

(02:40:58) Chapter 06

(03:04:14) Chapter 07

(03:33:09) Chapter 08

(04:07:40) Chapter 09

(04:34:34) Chapter 10

(05:02:11) Chapter 11

(05:26:20) Chapter 12

(05:57:10) Chapter 13

(06:27:22) Chapter 14

(07:00:18) Chapter 15

(07:21:23) Chapter 16

(07:39:18) Chapter 17

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(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:10:58) Chapter 02

(00:23:53) Chapter 03

(00:44:37) Chapter 04

(01:10:49) Chapter 05

(01:38:54) Chapter 06

(02:15:26) Chapter 07

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Genre: romance

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:41) Chapter 01

(00:34:37) Chapter 02

(00:59:19) Chapter 03

(01:38:45) Chapter 04

(02:05:13) Chapter 05

(02:37:14) Chapter 06

(03:04:14) Chapter 07

(03:31:02) Chapter 08

(04:03:20) Chapter 09