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Title Statement | The river maid [largetype] / Dilly Court. |
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Author | Court, Dilly |
Publication | Long Preston, North Yorkshire: Magna Large Print Books,2019.©2018 |
Edition | [Large print edition]. |
Extent of Item | 441 pages. |
ISBN | 075054693X 9780750546935 |
Other Number | 3651990 |
Summary | London, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father's beck and call. Then, one night, she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who ends up renting a room in Essie's house, identifying himself only as `Raven'. When curiosity gets the better of her, Essie follows him and unwittingly becomes involved in something far greater than she could ever have guessed. Finding herself on a ship bound for the penal colonies in Australia with Raven and his cousin Alice, this is only the start of a remarkable journey taking her to the other side of the world and back again. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Fathers and daughters--Fiction |
Interpersonal attraction--Fiction | |
Poverty--Fiction--England | |
Voyages and travels--Fiction | |
Large type books | |
By Location | Australia--Fiction |
London (England)--Fiction--History--19th century | |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Historical fiction |