Andrews, Lyn,

The Liverpool matchgirl / Lyn Andrews. - Large print edition. - 372 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

Liverpool, 1901. The Tempest family is all but destitute, barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill with pneumonia and Arthur is imprisoned after a drunken fight, their thirteen-year-old daughter Lizzie finds herself parentless, desperate and alone. Despite her young age, Lizzie has spirit and determination, and she knows that she must find work to keep herself off the streets. In a stroke of luck, she gets a job in the match factory, and foreman George Rutherford takes her under his wing. But will her new home with the Rutherfords shield her from trouble ahead?

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Families--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.


Liverpool (England)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.
Large type books.