Lavender Girl
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780709087144
Subjects: Widows, fiction; England, fiction; Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Description: Alice Greenwood's sense of humour is needed and never more so than in her widowhood. She makes a living by taking casual positions in local households in the Yorkshire town of of Masham, where she also sells herbs as the Lavender Girl, and her work leads her into difficulties and even danger. The Grey family employ Alice to control their wayward daughter Laura, who rebels against and arranged marriage.