Water gypsies
By: Annie Murray
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780333989470
Subjects: Canals; Fiction; Social conditions
Description: It is 1942, and after a tough childhood in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy life with her husband and children working the canals on a narrowboat. But hard work and constant child bearing take their toll, and the death of a friend and another pregnancy lead her to a desperate act.