Cradle of Thorns - Couverture rigide

Cox, Josephine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0708989780 ISBN 13 : 9780708989784

Editeur : Charnwood (Large Print), 1998

Synopsis

Book by Cox Josephine

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's farm. But for all her aunt's spiteful attempts to break Nell's independent spirit, she has never succeeded. But now Nell, pregnant and alone, is forced to leave behind the men in her life, believing she might never be able to return.

With little but the clothes she wears, she travels across the Bedfordshire countryside of 1890. When she encounters a scruffy urchin called Kit, a ten-year-old orphan who's lived his whole life on the streets, she takes him under her wing. The pair become devoted friends, never knowing where their journey will take them, but each aware that the time will come when there must be a reckoning.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Josephine Cox was born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching - and started to write her first full-length novel. Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Charnwood (Large Print)
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0708989780
• ISBN 13: 9780708989784
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448