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Hope / Lesley Pearse.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England : Penguin, 2011Description: 659 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0718147073
  • 9780718147075
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Somerset, 1832. Newborn baby Hope, living proof of Lady Harvey's adultery, is smuggled away from Briargate House by Nell, the parlourmaid, and adopted into her own family. As Hope's new eldest sister, Nell keeps the child's identity secret at Briargate House. Hope is also taken into service there, but a series of events occur which force her to flee to the streets of Bristol to lead a vagabond's existence. Now, compelled to abandon her family and in the midst of an outbreak of cholera, Hope proves herself an able nurse, a vocation which will take her to the battlefields of the Crimea. But the secrets of Hope's past are not yet done with her - and she must return to England to face the legacy of her birth.
List(s) this item appears in: English Authors historical fiction
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Mobile Library Fiction Collection (New) Fiction Collection (New) PEAR Checked out 01/05/2024 T00869155
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bristol in the 1840s sees Hope working as a nurse in the midst of the cholera epidemic, battling to save lives. But Hope has always battled for life - at the moment of her birth, she was feared dead and only the close attention of her sister, Nell, spared her from burial.

First published by Michael Joseph in 2006.

Somerset, 1832. Newborn baby Hope, living proof of Lady Harvey's adultery, is smuggled away from Briargate House by Nell, the parlourmaid, and adopted into her own family. As Hope's new eldest sister, Nell keeps the child's identity secret at Briargate House. Hope is also taken into service there, but a series of events occur which force her to flee to the streets of Bristol to lead a vagabond's existence. Now, compelled to abandon her family and in the midst of an outbreak of cholera, Hope proves herself an able nurse, a vocation which will take her to the battlefields of the Crimea. But the secrets of Hope's past are not yet done with her - and she must return to England to face the legacy of her birth.

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