Dwelling Place - Softcover

Cookson, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553132792 ISBN 13: 9780553132793

Publisher: Bantam Books of Canada Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

Cissie Brodie is a fighter, but this may be too much. Her mother and father are gone. She is left alone with her several brothers and sisters, and her whole sense of duty pushes her to find an answer that will save the family from the workhouse.

Enter the local Lord, a man not above extending his help to the deserving poor...but what is the price? The alternative is a man who declares he is a true protector...but Cissie senses his motives are less than pure.

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From the Inside Flap:

Cholera had taken her parents and left Cissie Brodie with the upbringing of a family of nine. She was barely fifteen herself when they were evicted from their cottage and forced out on to the fells. But even though they'd hardly a shilling between them, Cissie set to building a home for the Brodies with a will that would have shamed an adult. It was only a rough stone shelter, thatched as best they could, but to Cissie and her family it was enough to keep them fron the workhouse.

They had friends, such as Matthew Turnbull the wheelwright and Watson the miller. But charity could not always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle, and the bitterness of those who bore them ill. Only love--when it came for Cissie Brodie--could ever teach her not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place...

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0553132792
• ISBN 13: 9780553132793
• Binding: Paperback