Vanessa Lafaye
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Language
English
Description
Based on real historical events, Lafaye's debut novel is at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid depiction of a major natural disaster. This book evokes what happens when people, sweating under the weight of their pasts, are tested to the absolute limits of their endurance.--Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little sister 'tomorrow will be better' and when the chance to escape poverty comes their way, he seizes it despite the terrible price. And so Jacob Marley is set on a path that leads to his infamous partnership with Ebenezer Scrooge. As Jacob builds a fortress of wealth to keep...
Author
Language
English
Description
Christmas 1843 and two orphans, Jake and Clara Marley peer into the window of Mr. Quoit's toy shop, admiring a large doll's house that looks like their old home in Hampstead. Clara wishes she could just curl up inside it, rather than sleep in the dark alleys of Covent Garden with the other beggar children, but even those alleys are better than the workhouse they'd found themselves in just months before… Every night, before they go to sleep, Jake...
Author
Publisher
HQ, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Before A Christmas Carol there was Miss Marley A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little sister tomorrow will be better and when the chance to escape poverty comes their way, he seizes it despite the terrible price. And so Jacob Marley is set on a path that leads to his infamous...
