The Resource An orphan's courage, Cathy Sharp
An orphan's courage, Cathy Sharp
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The item An orphan's courage, Cathy Sharp represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item An orphan's courage, Cathy Sharp represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- St Saviour's children's home in London's East End has provided a safe refuge for local children for decades and Sister Beatrice and her team are as busy as ever. New staff member Jinny is glad to escape the lewd advances of her drunken and slovenly mother's rotten boyfriends, but can she prove she isn't a chip off the old block? As ever, the staff are tested when orphaned brother and sister Andy and Beth are brought to the home they are clearly terrified of something, and Andy refuses to be sent home, but can Sister Beatrice get to the bottom of their story before they are returned to their stepfather? It's all in a day's work for the home but things are about to change forever will they be ready to face the future?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Note
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- "Sometimes it's hard to be brave..." -- cover
- Includes Q&A with the author
- Isbn
- 9780008211639
- Label
- An orphan's courage
- Title
- An orphan's courage
- Statement of responsibility
- Cathy Sharp
- Subject
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- Children -- Institutional care
- Domestic fiction
- East End (London, England) -- Fiction
- trueEast End, London, England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- trueLondon, England -- History -- 20th century
- Nuns
- trueOrphanages
- Orphanages -- England | London -- Fiction
- trueOrphans
- Orphans -- Fiction
- trueStepparents
- truePostwar life
- Women social workers -- Fiction
- Child welfare workers -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- St Saviour's children's home in London's East End has provided a safe refuge for local children for decades and Sister Beatrice and her team are as busy as ever. New staff member Jinny is glad to escape the lewd advances of her drunken and slovenly mother's rotten boyfriends, but can she prove she isn't a chip off the old block? As ever, the staff are tested when orphaned brother and sister Andy and Beth are brought to the home they are clearly terrified of something, and Andy refuses to be sent home, but can Sister Beatrice get to the bottom of their story before they are returned to their stepfather? It's all in a day's work for the home but things are about to change forever will they be ready to face the future?
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sharp, Cathy
- Dewey number
- 823.92
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Orphans
- Orphanages
- Child welfare workers
- Women social workers
- East End (London, England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- An orphan's courage, Cathy Sharp
- Note
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- "Sometimes it's hard to be brave..." -- cover
- Includes Q&A with the author
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780008211639
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- An orphan's courage, Cathy Sharp
- Note
-
- "Sometimes it's hard to be brave..." -- cover
- Includes Q&A with the author
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780008211639
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
Subject
- Children -- Institutional care
- Domestic fiction
- East End (London, England) -- Fiction
- trueEast End, London, England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- trueLondon, England -- History -- 20th century
- Nuns
- trueOrphanages
- Orphanages -- England | London -- Fiction
- trueOrphans
- Orphans -- Fiction
- trueStepparents
- truePostwar life
- Women social workers -- Fiction
- Child welfare workers -- Fiction
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