Fallen Grace
By: Mary Hooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781599905648
Subjects: Funeral homes; Undertakers and undertaking; Orphans; Fiction; Sisters; Poverty; Juvenile fiction; Swindlers and swindling; People with mental disabilities; Mentally handicapped; History
Description: In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309).