The Girl from Poor House Lane - Hardcover

Lightfoot, Freda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340829982 ISBN 13: 9780340829981

Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2004

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Praise for Freda Lightfoot: 'Freda Lightfoot's talent for creating believable characters makes this a page-turning read.' -- Newcastle Evening Chronicle 'Charming and exciting ... A lovely story by an author with extraordinary feeling in her writing.' -- Bangor Chronicle 'Real people and real dramas are her mainstays' -- Westmorland Gazette 'The writer clearly knows her Manchester well, especially the canals, warehouses, factories and humble shops and dwellings of the poor. Her historical research has been painstaking and the sense of the period is very real' -- Historical Novel Society

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In the first few years of the twentieth century, the slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O'Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the meagre hand-outs she gleans from charity. So when the childless Tysons, owners of Kendal's shoe factory, offer to adopt her son, Callum, and employ Kate as his nanny, she seizes the chance to ensure he has a better life. To be so close to her son, yet no longer be his mother, is bittersweet. But Kate is not prepared for the jealousy the new arrangement provokes in Eliot Tyson's brother, Charles, who sees Callum as a direct threat to his inheritance. But then events take an unexpected turn. Kate finds herself back in Poor House Lane facing a heartrending decision - how to find her missing son.

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• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0340829982
• ISBN 13: 9780340829981
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416