Sometimes the past really does come back to haunt you.The old manor house has stood empty for years, left to rot since the last master of the Fenton family died. The tiny girl grows into a gifted young woman and, encouraged by her neighbour's son, Toby, she dreams of moving beyond ribbon-weaving to designing the hats and clothes the ribbons adorn. One winter's night, Molly Ernshaw rescues a baby from the snow and changes two families for ever. The regime is cruel, and if it weren't for Miss Beau - who comes in every week to teach the children their letters - and her young friend Daisy, Sunday's life wouldn't be worth living. But soon three of them - including Opal - are struck down with the illness that took their father, and her brother Charlie makes an impossible decision.įourteen-year-old Sunday Small has never lived outside the Nuneaton workhouse. When Opal Sharp finds herself and her younger siblings suddenly orphaned and destitute, she thinks things can get no worse. Pearl's mother decides to send her and her younger sister Eliza to the workhouse, where they are forced into a new life of hardship and struggle. But when her parents discover there's yet another baby on the way, they have to tighten the belt even further. Growing up in extreme poverty in London, Pearl thinks life can get no worse.
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