The Slow Awakening

by Catherine Cookson and Catherine Marchant

Book Overview

In the mid-1850s, life for an orphan was grim, as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died suddenly on a journey to Northumberland, leaving her penniless and alone in the hands of a cruel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0434450316
• ISBN13: 9780434450312
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 6282 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

wonderful book

I read this book a long time ago, but it is a good book. Catherine Cookson is a excellent author. It is unreal the cruelty orphan children went through in the last century. They were treated like slaves.