Velvet
By: Mary Hooper
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780747599210; 9780747599203
Subjects: Spiritualism; Premier's Reading Challenge; Young adult fiction; Impostors and imposture; Orphans; Fiction; Year 7; Mediums; Year 9.
Description: Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 323).