In a respectable tea-shop in London, a girl with a pistol is holding off three men. Sally Lockhart is fighting for her child--a child who is suddenly not hers any more. Sally is now twenty-five, and somebody wants to destroy her. She is unmarried--but she receives divorce papers from a man she has n
The Tiger in the Well
β Scribed by Philip Pullman
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 583 KB
- Series
- Sally Lockhart 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1524764973
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β¦ Synopsis
UNLIKE MOST VICTORIAN women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally's whole world is about to collapse. A stranger emerges, claiming to be both her husband and Harriet's father and threatening all that she has.
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