Cradle of thorns
By: Josephine Cox
Publisher: Headline; Headline Publishing Group
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780747213819; 9781472245366
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: When Nell becomes pregnant, she is forced to leave behind her life, and travel across the Bedfordshire countryside of 1890. On her journey she meets Kit, a ten-year-old orphan. She takes him under her wing, both of them aware there must be a reckoning.