Season's Savings | ₹5/mo for 3 months
₹199/month after first 3 months. Renews automatically. Terms apply.
Number, Please
A Novel of the Telephone Exchange, 1942
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping basket is already at capacity.
Add to cart failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
₹0.00 for first 30 days
Season's Savings
₹5/month for first 3 months
Offer ends on 28 December, 2026.
Only ₹5/month for first 3 months.
Get 1 credit per month to use on any title of your choice.
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and Audible Originals.
₹199/month after first 3 months. Cancel anytime. Renews automatically. Offer ends 28 December, 2026.
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.
Number, Please
Narrated by:
AI Voice Nell Ashworth
Buy Now for ₹546.23
-
Narrated by:
-
AI Voice Nell Ashworth
-
Written by:
-
Ethan Marlowe
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
About this listen
Corwin, Ohio, March 1942. The men who managed and mended the telephone exchange have gone to war, and the twelve women at the switchboard now carry the whole town's voice through a wall of brass jacks and braided cords. Ruth Ann Doyle is twenty-four, quick, careful and sworn to silence. She hears every proposal, every argument and every bit of bad news in Corwin, and she repeats none of it.
Then a telegram about a missing flier is delivered to the wrong family, and one evening on the line Ruth Ann overhears something worse on the party line: a plan to steal rationed fuel from the people who can least afford to lose it. If she speaks, she breaks the one promise that holds her job and her friendships together. If she stays quiet, someone she has connected a thousand times will pay for it.
With a chief operator who has run the board since the first war, a night girl who never says what she is really afraid of, and a company in the city ready to close their small exchange for good, Ruth Ann has to find out what a person owes the town that trusts her with its secrets.
A warm, absorbing story of friendship, courage and the women who kept a country talking. A novel of the home front.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet