ASIN: B009YK1HJ0
Publisher: Charlotte Greene
Pages: 314
Imagine life in a damp and squalid room with death and disease lurking at every corner. The year is 1866. Maggie Tanner is a young girl born to an impoverished family in the slums of London. Her grandmother's death is the first taste of her bitter circumstances followed by her mother's newborn twins. Her father’s constant insobriety and lack of employment means they are all soon destined for the workhouse.A tight-lipped nun acquires a position for Maggie as a servant for an upper class family, but there she encounters further turmoil by falling pregnant to their eldest son. She returns home only to be plunged into the social stigma of bastardy and shame. As her life unfolds into every victorian girl's worst nightmare she does all she can to save her baby from a disease-ridden orphanage and takes drastic decisions to save both the child and herself, but when her pain and loss continues ...
