The Home Child : a novel in verse / Liz Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Liz, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Showell, Eliza--Fiction.

Showell, Eliza.

Child agricultural laborers--Fiction.

Child agricultural laborers.

Cape Breton Island (N.S.)--History--20th century--Fiction.

Cape Breton Island (N.S.).

Nova Scotia--Cape Breton Island.

Genre:

Novels in verse.

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 115 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, 2023.

Summary:

"In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return to Britain or see her family again. She is a Home Child, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants. In Nova Scotia, Eliza's world becomes a place where ordinary things are transfigured into treasures - a red ribbon, the feel of a foal's mane, the sound of her name on someone else's lips. With nothing to call her own, the wild beauty of Cape Breton is the only solace Eliza has - until another Home Child, a boy, comes to the farm and changes everything. Inspired by the true story of Liz Berry's great aunt, this spellbinding novel in verse is an exquisite portrait of a girl far from home."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Poetry Book Society recommendation" -- front cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 114).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1784742686

9781784742683

OCLC:

1330196038