description: Shy, clever, and ambitious, Rose grows up in the poor part of town, leaves home for a university education and a career, and after an unsuccessful marriage, returns home to make peace with her town and her practical, shrewd stepmother, Flo
language: English
title: The Beggar Maid
titlecomplete: The Beggar Maid
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6332
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction
publisher: Random House Inc