Listen to the Child
2016
First Published
3.76
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages
Based the true story of Annie MacPherson, one of the first Victorians to ship children from the poor streets of London to the open fields of Canada. Rich in detail and character. It’s 1875 and London’s East End heaves with child prostitutes, hawkers, beggars and thieves. Annie rescues as many children as she can but feels overwhelmed. A solution is offered that sounds perfect – Canadian farmers need workers; their wives want housemaids. Shipping children to this land of plenty offers them a future. Widow, Mary Trupper, is wary, but the promise of a good life for her children is strong.
Avg Rating
3.76
Number of Ratings
1,363
5 STARS
30%
4 STARS
33%
3 STARS
24%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Elizabeth Howard
Author · 9 books
Elizabeth Howard (Mizner) was born in 1907 in Detroit, and spent most of her life in Michigan. Descended from a noteworthy historic family, she loved history herself and enjoyed sharing her strong sense of the past in historical novels for teenage girls.
