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  • Published: 15 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780091956257
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00
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Workhouse Child




A warm-hearted 'rags-to-riches' story from the bestselling author and queen of sagas, Maggie Hope

All she wants is a family of her own...

Lottie is just three years old when her Mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. A childhood spent in poverty, skivvying for other people, leaves her with no prospects, no family...

Yet Lottie is bright and has ambitions for a better life. And when an opportunity arises at the local Chapel, Lottie seizes her chance. But will she ever be anything more than a workhouse child?

  • Published: 15 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780091956257
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00
Categories:

About the author

Maggie Hope

Maggie Hope was born in County Durham, during the Depression of the 1930s. She is the daughter of a coal miner and knows first-hand the hardships suffered by miners and their families during that time.

Along with her three sisters, she was raised in a ‘two-up-two-down’ miner’s cottage with no inside toilet. Growing up, Maggie never dreamed she could earn a living from her writing. Instead she left school at sixteen and became a nurse, collecting stories from colleagues who had served during the war.

Maggie gave up nursing when she married her husband and started a family. It wasn’t until she was in her 50s though that she finally began her writing career. She is now the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen novels.

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