Lady lightfingers / Janet Woods.

By: Woods, Janet, 1939- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sutton, Surrey, England : Severn House Large Print, 2013Copyright date: ©2011Edition: First large print editionDescription: 350 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780727896599 (hardback); 0727896598 (hardback)Subject(s): Poor women -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | Theft -- Fiction | Aunts -- England -- Dorset -- Fiction | London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Love stories. | Large type books. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: ROMANCE: HISTORICAL. Raised in the slums in 1850s London, Celia Laws is a rarity, an educated young woman whose creative skills have attracted notice. But with family to care for, circumstances have driven her to pickpocketing. In Celia's harsh world, it's a small step from picking pockets to prostitution. When a young man offers her a fortune to spend a week with him, she takes the money and runs. But Celia's conscience can't allow her to forget the money she stole, and she is soon brought face-to-face with her past...
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Originally published: 2011.

ROMANCE: HISTORICAL. Raised in the slums in 1850s London, Celia Laws is a rarity, an educated young woman whose creative skills have attracted notice. But with family to care for, circumstances have driven her to pickpocketing. In Celia's harsh world, it's a small step from picking pockets to prostitution. When a young man offers her a fortune to spend a week with him, she takes the money and runs. But Celia's conscience can't allow her to forget the money she stole, and she is soon brought face-to-face with her past...

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