Emma Hornby
The Chimney Sweep’s Sister
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Think anger management. Orphan Jenny (aged 16) has, in her own words, “a gob the size of a train tunnel”. Uncontrollable foul-mouthed rants and ...Read Review
A Daughter’s War
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Bolton, England, 1939. Nasty brute Ivan Rushmore keeps daughter Renee, aged 17, on such a short lead that she hardly knows what day it is, ...Read Review
A Mother’s Betrayal
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This novel is about a woman named Mara, who is married into a 19th-century family that has abused her from the start. Her ...Read Review
The Maid’s Disgrace
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Manchester in the 1840s: Phoebe Parsons has been cast out onto the streets with an unfair reference. The only item of value she ...Read Review
A Daughter’s Price
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Set in Northern England in the late 1800s, this is a novel about murder, innocence, retribution and hope. Laura Cannock flees the consequences ...Read Review
A Shilling for a Wife
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In the 1850s, Sally, a workhouse orphan, is sold for one shilling to Joseph Goden to be his wife, and so Sally’s ...Read Review
