Stone cradle
By: Louise Doughty
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna; Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780750526579
Subjects: Romanies; Fiction
Description: Clementina Smith is a young girl when she gives birth to her illegitimate son, Elijah. Others have been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's Dei and Dadus stick by her and Elijah grows up greatly loved by his small but tight-knit family. But then he meets a non-Romany girl From the farms of the Fens in the 1870s through the backstreets of Victorian Cambridge to modern-day Peterborough, Stone Cradle charts the history of three generations of one extended family. How do Travellers adapt to a century that no longer needs them? And what is everyone to do when two women in a family can hardly stand the sight of one another?
Notes: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2006.