The Street Orphans
$24.20
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2018
Summary
The Street Orphans is an emotional story set in 1850s Lancashire, from Mary Wood, the author of In Their Mother’s Footsteps and Brighter Days Ahead.Born with a club foot in a remote village in the Pennines, Ruth is feared and ridiculed by her superstitious neighbours who see her affliction as a sign of witchcraft. When her father is killed in an accident and her family evicted from their cottage, she hopes to leave her old life behind, to start afresh in the Blackburn cotton mills. But traged…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447267515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447267516 |
| Series: | The Generation War |
| Author: | Mary Wood |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 28mm |
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Wood is a born storyteller
Wood is a born storyteller * Lancashire Evening Post *
About The Author
Mary Wood
Born the thirteenth child of fifteen to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy, Mary Wood’s family were poor but rich in love. Mary raised four children and has numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. An avid reader, she first put pen to paper in 1989, and is now a full-time novelist. Her novels include The Breckton Novels, In Their Mother’s Footsteps and Brighter Days Ahead.
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