Folly
By: Marthe Jocelyn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780385738460; 9780385907316; 9780375894510; 9780375855436
Subjects: London (England); Household employees; Fiction; Foundling Hospital (London, England); Foundlings; History
Description: In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.
Notes: "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap.

14 & up.