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| Title Statement | The blackbirds of St. Giles / Lila Cain. |
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| Author | Cain, Lila |
| Publication | New York: Kensington Publishing Corp.,[2025]©2025 |
| Extent of Item | 489 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781496755629 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07876844 |
| General Notes | Includes discussion questions. |
| Summary | On a terrifying night in 1768, Daniel and his young sister, Pearl, narrowly escape their brutal life of slavery when a Jamaican sugarcane plantation is torched in a violent uprising. More than a decade later in New York City, Daniel anticipates sailing with Pearl, now 15, to a new life promised by Britain's king to former slaves who fought for the Crown in America's War of Independence. For saving a Major's life in battle, Daniel is doubly rewarded with the man's inheritance, to be claimed on the other side of the ocean. But a king's promises can be forgotten, and fortunes snatched away by the cruel prejudices of strangers in a new land. Hopeless and homeless, Daniel and Pearl are lured into a dank maze of passageways roiling beneath London's teeming streets, far below the crypts of St. Giles church. A world of unimaginable poverty, where the desperate live as outcasts, the blackbirds of St. Giles. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Black people--Fiction--Social conditions--England--London |
| Freed persons--Fiction | |
| Siblings--Fiction | |
| Poverty--Fiction | |
| By Location | St. Giles (London, England)--Fiction--Social conditions--18th century |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
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