The poplar penny whistlers
By: Sheila Newberry
Publisher: Magna Large Print; Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780750535762
Subjects: Nurses; Fiction; Social conditions
Description: At the sonorous boom of the foghorn, young Hester Stainsby gives an involuntary shudder. In the cavernous basement laundry room of the Poplar Hospital where she toils from dawn to dusk, there is fog too, damp, hot and swirling. Her fears are realized; her father, Fred, has been badly injured in the East India Docks. Hester, already caring for her twin siblings and her grandmother, now has the role of breadwinner.
Notes: Originally published: [London]: Robert Hale, 2011.