Nobody's Child - Hardcover

Wood, Valerie

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593053834 ISBN 13: 9780593053836

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2006

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When Laura Page returns to the remote Holderness village of Welwick, it is to try and discover the mystery of her mother, Susannah's early life. Now a local property owner in Hull, Susannah never speaks of her childhood, when she was brought up with the terrible stigma of bastardy—of being nobody's child. Born into poverty, living in a tiny laborer's cottage with her father, Susannah's mother had caught the eye of the local landowner's son. She was his one and only great love, but when she died giving birth to their daughter, Susannah, he could not acknowledge his child but had to watch her growing up in hardship. As the years passed and Laura had begin to be curious about her mother's past, would she ever be reunited with the father she had scarcely known?

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About the Author:

Valerie Wood was born in Yorkshire, where she still lives. She is the author of The Hungry Tide, and Far From Home.

Review:

"Valerie Wood's skill takes you through a complicated plot to a magical ending ... a page-turner of the best kind." -- Elizabeth Gill Mslexia

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