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The Bookseller's Wife

✍ Scribed by Jane Davis

Book ID: 112876585
Publisher: Jane Davis
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Books have been her only solace.

Now they're about to change her life.

'Dorcas is as appealing and extraordinary in her circumstances as Elizabeth Bennett or Mrs Dalloway' ~ JJ Marsh, author of Salt of the Earth

London, 1775: The only surviving child of six, Dorcas Turton should have been heiress to a powerful family name. But after her mother's untimely death, she is stunned by the discovery that her father's compulsive gambling has brought them close to ruin. With the threat of debtor's prison looming large, she must employ all her ingenuity to keep their creditors at bay.

Fortunately, ingenuity is something Dorcas is not short of. An avid reader, novels have taught her the life lessons her governess failed to. Forsaking hopes of marriage and children, she opens a day-school for girls. But unbeknown to Dorcas, her father has not given up his extravagant ways. When the bailiffs...

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