The long way home
By: by Audrey Howard
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; Hodder Paperback
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780340895399; 9780340895405; 9780340895412
Subjects: Social conditions; Poor families; Fiction
Description: Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool - but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes. Clever and pretty, ten-year-old Amy is perfect for her purposes. It is the beginning of a long journey for Amy, as she desperately searches for the family she lost, and a home where she can be free at last from her aunt's possessive tyranny. But she will have to endure a forced marriage and a tragic war before she can at last find what she seeks.