The workhouse girl
Court, Dilly2013
Book
Total copies: 3
The latest saga from the bestselling author of }The Best Of Daughters{, this follows the life of an 8 year old girl who is forced to enter a workhouse in Bloomsbury. Arrow has sold more than a million copies of Court's books, since launching her in 2006. Sarah Scarse may be young but life in the notorious St Giles and St George's workhouse has forced her to grow up fast.And after her mother's untimely death, Sarah's fighting spirit becomes her only defence against the workhouse master, Trigg, and his cruel wife.Sarah's fate appears to change, however, when a sugar mill owner takes her into his home.But just as Sarah starts working towards a brighter future, dangerous figures from the past threaten to catch up with her.Can she draw on her determined resolve to finally confront her problems and free herself from the shackles of the workhouse, once and for all?
Main title:
The workhouse girl / Dilly Court.
Author:
Court, Dilly, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Arrow Books, 2013.
Collation:
472 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780099562627 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6103
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
248990