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The Workhouse Girl

✍ Scribed by Court, Dilly

Book ID: 108946358
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 202 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah and her widowed mother to enter the notorious St Giles and St George�s Workhouse.

When her mother dies in childbirth, the independent-minded Sarah falls foul of the workhouse master, Trigg and his cruel wife.

Sarah�s ordeal seems to be over when a sugar mill owner takes her into his home.

But her wealthy benefactor reports Trigg and his wife. And blaming Sarah for their misfortune, in a fit of revenge, the couple decide to take the law into their own hands.

Review

"An excellent, well-researched read." People's Friend

About the Author

DILLY COURT grew up in North-east London and began her career in television, writing scripts for commercials. She is married with two grown-up children and four grandchildren, and now lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband. She is the author of seventeen novels and also writes under the name of Lily Baxter.�

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