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Black Country Orphan (Hardcover)
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Black Country Orphan (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R493
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Black Country Orphan is a moving story of the courage and strength
of women, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Murray. The
early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near
Birmingham and centre of the world's chain-making trade. Lucy
Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her
two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends
meet. When tragedy strikes, the Butler family is separated and Lucy
is taken in by Bertha Hipkiss, another impoverished chain maker,
struggling to look after her own family. Lucy, while feeling the
loss of her own family, relies on the company of Bertha's two sons,
charming Clem and straight-laced John. Though clever at school,
Lucy knows she must leave and earn her keep, working many hours in
the backyard forge. The five women toiling side by side, inevitably
have their own friendships and squabbles. But they're united in
their hatred of loathsome middleman Seth Dawson, who treats the
women with contempt, and keeps their pay punishingly low. But by
the 1910s, there is a movement stirring, as across the country
workers begin unionising for their rights. For Lucy, Bertha and the
women of Cradley Heath, the promise of a better life seems almost
too much to hope for - and the fight may end up costing them
everything . . .
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