The penny heart /
by Bailey, Martine.
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BookPublisher: London : Hodder, 2016Description: 458 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781444769869 (pbk.) :; 1444769863 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Manchester (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Historical | HistoricalSummary: Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows - but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate. Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed - a world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Crosby Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 002931556X |
Originally published: 2015.
Sentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows - but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate. Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed - a world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.
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