The housekeeper
By: Melanie Wallace
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781846550218; 9781846550211
Subjects: Runaway children; Fiction
Description: When Jamie finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she has no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. An orphaned teenage runaway who has fetched up with only her dog and her backpack in the lonesome town of her grandparents' birth, Jamie becomes housekeeper to Margaret, a retired photographer.