The rat catcher : a love story / Man-woman relationships Rats Rat trapping Plague Life change events
Kelly, Kim (Novelist),
The rat catcher : a love story / Kim Kelly. - 181 pages ; 20 cm.
In the sweltering summer of 1900, young wharf labourer Patrick O’Reilly is down on his luck in the slums of Sydney and homesick for Tralee. When a deadly outbreak of plague descends on the city, O’Reilly’s daydreaming mind is miles away – in the golden hair and kindly, confident air of a girl called Rosie Hughes. Just as he’s wondering why any girl would want a no-hoper like him, opportunity knocks with the offer of a job as a rat catcher working for the city’s Plague Department, containing the spread of disease. But the job will bring him a lot more than a pay rise and a swift education on traps and poisons.
9781761280146 1761280147
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Rats--Control--Fiction.
Rat trapping--Fiction.
Plague--History--New South Wales--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
The rat catcher : a love story / Kim Kelly. - 181 pages ; 20 cm.
In the sweltering summer of 1900, young wharf labourer Patrick O’Reilly is down on his luck in the slums of Sydney and homesick for Tralee. When a deadly outbreak of plague descends on the city, O’Reilly’s daydreaming mind is miles away – in the golden hair and kindly, confident air of a girl called Rosie Hughes. Just as he’s wondering why any girl would want a no-hoper like him, opportunity knocks with the offer of a job as a rat catcher working for the city’s Plague Department, containing the spread of disease. But the job will bring him a lot more than a pay rise and a swift education on traps and poisons.
9781761280146 1761280147
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Rats--Control--Fiction.
Rat trapping--Fiction.
Plague--History--New South Wales--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Historical fiction.