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The black silk purse / Margaret Kaine ; read by Annie Aldington.
By: Kaine, Margaret.
Contributor(s): Aldington, Annie.
Publisher: Long Preston : Magna, 2019Description: 11 sound discs (CD) (ca. 11 hr. 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781785028588; 1785028588.Subject(s): Household employees -- Fiction | Single women -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Mothers -- Death -- Fiction | Abused children -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Audiobooks.Online resources: Click here to access online Read by Annie Aldington.Summary: Sent to the workhouse as a child, all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering, 'Dearie, promise you will never forget what you saw. Your Ma was killed deliberate... and someone oughter pay for it.'When young, wealthy spinster Letitia Fairchild witnesses Ella being ill-treated, she takes her in as a scullery maid. But as Ella grows up, she is determined to find the truth about her mother's tragic death and appeals to Letitia for help, revealing her only personal possession, a black silk purse. Intrigued, Letitia agrees to begin a quest to solve the mystery of Ella's past. But there are astonishing and dramatic consequences.| Item type | Home library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Audiobooks | Haydock Library Talking Book | Available | 38055013141957 | |||||
| Audiobooks | Moss Bank Library Talking Book | Reallocated BL Stock | Available | 38055013129770 |
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Complete and unabridged.
Story Sound CD.
Read by Annie Aldington.
Sent to the workhouse as a child, all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering, 'Dearie, promise you will never forget what you saw. Your Ma was killed deliberate... and someone oughter pay for it.'When young, wealthy spinster Letitia Fairchild witnesses Ella being ill-treated, she takes her in as a scullery maid. But as Ella grows up, she is determined to find the truth about her mother's tragic death and appeals to Letitia for help, revealing her only personal possession, a black silk purse. Intrigued, Letitia agrees to begin a quest to solve the mystery of Ella's past. But there are astonishing and dramatic consequences.
Adult.