Bibliograph

The winter orphan, Cathy Sharp

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The winter orphan, Cathy Sharp

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The winter orphan

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Cathy Sharp

Summary

A heartbreaking story of one child's courage, from the bestselling author of The Orphan's of Halfpenny Street. Ella has never known love. Left as a baby outside the workhouse, Ella has only ever been treated with unkindness; especially from the hateful guardians of the workhouse, who hold the fate of the inmates in their cruel hands. When she is sold as a scullery maid to a new home, Ella hopes for a better life. But her hopes are dashed as she struggles to do all the work heaped on her thin shoulders by her brutish master. Daring to escape her harsh treatment, it isn't long before she is caught and once again finds herself at the mercy of an uncaring world. Can Ella resist giving in to despair and somehow to find the strength to carry on alone... Cathy Sharp is the author of the best selling Halfpenny Orphans series set in the East End This is the continuing series set in an East End Workhouse. Gritty and compelling, readers will be rooting for its plucky heroines

Target audience

adult

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