TY - SOUND AU - Kaine,Margaret AU - Aldington,Annie TI - The black silk purse SN - 9781785028588 PY - 2019/// CY - Long Preston PB - Magna KW - Household employees KW - Fiction KW - Single women KW - Female friendship KW - Mothers KW - Death KW - Abused children KW - Domestic fiction KW - Audiobooks N1 - Complete and unabridged; Story Sound CD; Read by Annie Aldington; Adult N2 - 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. UR - http://www.ulverscroft.com/images/thumbs/9781785028588.jpg ER -