Spilt milk
By: Amanda Hodgkinson
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781444823844
Subjects: Sisters; Fiction; Adopted children; History; Sœurs; Romans, nouvelles; Enfants adoptés; Histoire
Description: 1913: Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their lives are quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood lands a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever ... 1939: Eighteen-year-old Birdie Farr is working as a barmaid in the family pub in London. When she realizes she is pregnant she turns to her mother Nellie, who asks her sister to arrange an adoption for Birdie's baby daughter. But as the years pass, Birdie discovers she cannot escape the Marsh sisters' shadowy past - and her own troubling obsession with finding her lost daughter will have deep consequences for all of them ...
Notes: Adult.
Table of contents: title: 1913: Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their lives are quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood lands a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever ... 1939: Eighteen-year-old Birdie Farr is working as a barmaid in the family pub in London. When she realizes she is pregnant she turns to her mother Nellie, who asks her sister to arrange an adoption for Birdie's baby daughter. But as the years pass, Birdie discovers she cannot escape the Marsh sisters' shadowy past; title: and her own troubling obsession with finding her lost daughter will have deep consequences for all of them ...