A daughter's gift
By: Maggie Hope
Contributors: Horne, Una
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781471323263; 9781471323270
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; Fiction; Working class; Nurses; Orphans
Description: Elizabeth is only 10 when her mother dies in childbirth. With her father gone, the siblings are separated. Her Aunt Betty takes baby Kit. Elizabeth and her brother, Jimmy, are sent to a children's home and Alice and Jenny are sent into foster care. Life in the home is hard, but Elizabeth is determined to look after her brother.
Notes: Originally published: as A blackbird singing by Una Horne. London: Piatkus, 2000.