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The beggar maid / Dilly Court.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF COUR	Adult Fiction		Chester Hill .	. Available .
F COUR	Adult Fiction		Riverwood .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781780890616 (hbk.)
ISBN	1780890613 (hbk.)
Name	Court, Dilly author.
Title	The beggar maid / Dilly Court.
Published	London Century, 2014
Published	?2014
Description	454 pages ; 24 cm
Summary	This is the wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family. From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets. When he grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. He takes Charity in to help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop. Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well treated, but Jethro instills in her the love of books that began when her grandmother taught her to read. And she starts to hope for a better future for herself. But Jethro dies unexpectedly, and Charity is faced with eviction when the rent is raised by the unscrupulous landlord. Must Charity give up her dream of running the bookshop herself, and worse, be forced to return to the streets.
Subjects	Bookstores -- Fiction
Subjects	Homeless persons -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Bookstores -- Fiction . Homeless persons -- Fiction . Authors: Court, Dilly .