The comfort of strangers
By: Robert Grieve
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Linford romance library; Linford romance library
Publisher: Linford
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781847821058
Subjects: Poor; Fiction
Description: When Carrie Martin's family falls on hard times, she struggles to support her frail sister and inadequate father. While scavenging along the shoreline of the Thames for firewood, she stumbles over the unconscious body of a young man. As she nurses him back to health she falls in love with the stranger. But there is a mystery surrounding the identity of "Mr. Jones" and, as Carrie tries to find out who he is, she finds herself in danger.