num_pages: 416
description: When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the workhouse.They have friends, but charity cannot always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle and the bitterness of those who wish them harm. But can love, when it arrives, teach Cissie not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place?Set in the 1830's, The Dwelling Place is the powerful tale of a tenacious family's battle to overcome the odds.
language: English
title: The Dwelling Place
titlecomplete: The Dwelling Place
characters: Isabelle Fischel, Watson, Clive Fischel, Cissie Brodie, Matthew Turnbull
genres: Historical, British Literature, Novels, Historical Romance, Roman, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 2307
places: Heatherbrook (fictional), Dunham County, England
publisher: Corgi  New Ed edition