The Mersey mistress / Sheila Riley.

By: Riley, Sheila [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Riley, Sheila. Reckoner's Row ; bk. 3.Publisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, Boldwood, 2021Edition: Large print editionDescription: 1 volume (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781800485754; 1800485751Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | Liverpool (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Large type books. Summary: 1910 Liverpool Docks. Ruby Swift is a hard-working, straight-talking woman of substance who does not suffer fools gladly. But when tragedy strikes on a bitter Christmas Eve, Ruby and her beloved Archie take matters into their own hands when a trusted employee's house is mysteriously engulfed by flames and lives are lost. Orphaned by the fire, Ruby welcomes heartbroken sixteen-year-old Anna Cassidy, into her home and family but circumstances conspire against them and she is unable to save Anna's twelve-year-old brother Sam Cassidy, who is sent by the Church to Canada as a Homeboy. Can Ruby help mend a broken heart and can these two children ever be reunited or is there another higher game in play?
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1910 Liverpool Docks. Ruby Swift is a hard-working, straight-talking woman of substance who does not suffer fools gladly. But when tragedy strikes on a bitter Christmas Eve, Ruby and her beloved Archie take matters into their own hands when a trusted employee's house is mysteriously engulfed by flames and lives are lost. Orphaned by the fire, Ruby welcomes heartbroken sixteen-year-old Anna Cassidy, into her home and family but circumstances conspire against them and she is unable to save Anna's twelve-year-old brother Sam Cassidy, who is sent by the Church to Canada as a Homeboy. Can Ruby help mend a broken heart and can these two children ever be reunited or is there another higher game in play?

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