The rat catcher : a love story / Kim Kelly.
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TextPublisher: Lidcombe, N.S.W. : Brio Books, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 181 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761280146; 1761280147Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Rats -- Control -- Fiction | Rat trapping -- Fiction | Plague -- New South Wales -- History -- Fiction | Life change events -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.Summary: 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.
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| z Adult Fiction | Northam | F KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111084038650 |
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.
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