Velvet
Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya,...
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Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come to work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But soon Velvet realises that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger . . .
A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much loved historical writer for teens. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/velvet-9780747599210/#sthash.aWsNZAM5.dpuf
źródło opisu: Bloomsbury
źródło okładki: Bloomsbury
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780747599210
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I've picked this book up a few times in bookstores but never actually brought myself to buy it. While I love my paranormal in fictions, mediums just don't sit well with me. On the subject of mediums I'm a complete cynic. But when I renewed my library card the other weekend I saw this book and though...
First book finished for Spring Book Bingo. Not the historical I planned but still a good read. Review to come.
*Worum geht's?* Die junge Velvet hatte es bisher nie leicht in ihrem Leben. Harte Schicksalsschläge haben aus ihr eine gezeichnete Waise gemacht, die nun als Wäscherin versucht, ihren Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen. Und selbst diese Arbeit ist in Gefahr, denn Velvets geschwächter Körper kann die Last ...
Velvet was my first forage in Mary Hooper's writing and it won't be the last. I found this book very charming.We forget sometimes how much more naive the Victorians were comparing to us, and Miss Hooper shows this naivete in stark contrast with deviousness of the main villains very very well. She al...
Having read Mary Hooper's books before, I knew I'd probably love this but find a lot of faults with it. I eagerly read it anyway, as all of Mary's books are amazingly researched and the environments rich and easy to imagine. Mary's characters are very vivid too, I had no problem deciding on which ac...
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