by Valerie Wood · Transworld Publishers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552156806
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In 1860s England, Polly, a young girl living in poverty, loses her mother and finds herself alone on the streets of Hull. Rosalie, raised in affluence, also loses her mother on the same day. Polly gets a job as a scullery maid in Rosalie's house, and the two girls strike up an unlikely friendship. Traveling to the North Yorkshire Moors, they discover a new life and find unexpected joy and fulfillment.
This moving novel by Valerie Wood, winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction, explores themes of friendship, social class, and self-improvement in the historical context of Victorian England.
Val Wood, also known as Valerie Wood, is a British author of historical romance novels. She has written over 25 novels, all set in and around the city of Kingston upon Hull published by Transworld. She was born in Castleford and lives in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire
