TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,Kim
TI  - The rat catcher: a love story 
SN  - 9781761280146
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Lidcombe, N.S.W.
PB  - Brio Books
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Rats
KW  - Control
KW  - Rat trapping
KW  - Plague
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - History
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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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