The December rose
By: Leon Garfield
Publisher: Viking Kestrel
Published: 1986
Place of publication: [Harmondsworth]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Description: A young chimneysweep, known as Barnacle, finds himself enmeshed in a web of dangerous intrigue amidst the shadowy wharves and back lanes of nineteenth century London, but emerges older and wiser as a result.