Mothering Sunday / Rosie Goodwin.

By: Goodwin, Rosie [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Goodwin, Rosie. Days of the week ; 1.Publisher: London : Zaffre, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 443 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785762314Subject(s): Orphans -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: It's 1884 and 14-year-old Sunday Small has been in the Nuneaton workhouse since she was abandoned at birth. The regime is cruel, and if it were not for the lovely Miss Beau who comes in every week to teach the inmate children their letters, and her dear little friend Daisy, Sunday's life would barely be worth living. And now she's attracted the unwelcome attention of the workhouse master, who will stop at nothing to get her alone and will not take no for an answer. It's time for Sunday to strike out alone in the world. Leaving behind everything she knows, she must try to make her fortune. She's driven on by the promise she made to come back for Daisy, and her secret dream of one day being reunited with the long-lost mother who gave her away. But she's about to discover that try to escape as she might, the brutal world of the workhouse will not let her go without a fight.
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"Memory Lane"--Back cover.

It's 1884 and 14-year-old Sunday Small has been in the Nuneaton workhouse since she was abandoned at birth. The regime is cruel, and if it were not for the lovely Miss Beau who comes in every week to teach the inmate children their letters, and her dear little friend Daisy, Sunday's life would barely be worth living. And now she's attracted the unwelcome attention of the workhouse master, who will stop at nothing to get her alone and will not take no for an answer. It's time for Sunday to strike out alone in the world. Leaving behind everything she knows, she must try to make her fortune. She's driven on by the promise she made to come back for Daisy, and her secret dream of one day being reunited with the long-lost mother who gave her away. But she's about to discover that try to escape as she might, the brutal world of the workhouse will not let her go without a fight.

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