Judy Summers
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Series
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
Liverpool, 1847. At seventeen, Delilah Shaw is the eldest of the eight Shaw siblings, and the one who must take charge when her mother and brother die in a tragic manner, and her father is left disabled in an accident at the docks. But can she save her family when they need her the most?
Author
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Liverpool, 1861. Annie Shaw longs to be taken seriously. At 14, she's fed up of being babied by her secretive big sister Delilah. When Annie's old friend Clara visits with tales of the good money that can be made at the cotton mill outside Ormskirk, she sees her chance at adventure and runs away. The work is gruelling and Annie is shocked to witness children as young as eight working long days around dangerous machinery. But it seems that, as long...
Author
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Liverpool, 1848. When Meg's struggling family realise they can't feed all the children, Meg volunteers to go to the workhouse for one season, and she'll take her little sister, Rosie, with her. But Meg and Rosie are separated as soon as they enter the workhouse.