Rich Girl, Poor Girl (eBook)

Val Wood (Autor)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
528 Seiten
Transworld (Verlag)
978-1-4090-8033-6 (ISBN)

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The moving new novel by this popular author, winner of the Catherine Cookson prize for fiction

Christmas 1860:

Polly, living in grinding poverty,loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the streets of Hull.

Rosalie, brought up in affluence and comfort on the other side of town, loses her own mother in similar circumstances and on the same day.

Polly takes a job as scullery maid in Rosalie's lonely house, and the two girls form an unlikely friendship. Travelling to the North Yorkshire Moors they discover a new kind of life and find unexpected joy and fulfilment.

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Winter, 1860. Rosalie has been granted a life of comfort and wealth but neither of these protects her when her mother suddenly dies. Polly has lead a life of grinding poverty; after losing her own mother, she finds herself alone on the bitterly cold streets of Hull. Then fate intervenes, bringing the two girls together when Polly takes a job as a scullery maid in Rosalie s lonely house. The girls become unlikely friends and, when forced to leave the city behind, find themselves setting out to live with Rosalie s uncle on the North Yorkshire Moors. Here they discover a life that neither of them has known before; though after finding momentary joy they soon learn once again that tragedy is never far away ____________________If you've liked books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• ISBN-10: 1-4090-8033-1 / 1409080331
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4090-8033-6 / 9781409080336