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: Laura Kate Garcia, paperback
"You're Nellie Westrop and don't you forget it. - Live a good life. - Now go, my love." From the author of Silver Darlings comes LK Wilde's captivating portrayal of the life of Queenie Read. - Heart warming and breaking in equal measure, Queenie of Norwich is perfect for fans of The Foundling, Where the Crawdads Sing, and The Smallest Man. - People say you get one life, but I've lived three. I was born Ellen Hardy in 1900, dragged up in Queen Caroline's Yard, Norwich. - There was nothing royal about our yard, and Mum was no queen. - At six years old Mum sold me. I became Nellie Westrop, roaming the country in a showman's wagon, learning the art of the fair. - And I've been the infamous Queenie of Norwich, moving up in the world by any means, legal or not. - I've been heart broken, abandoned, bought and sold, but I've never, ever given up. - After all, it's not where you start that's important, but where you end up. - Spanning the first half of the 20th century, Queenie's story is one of heartbreak and triumph, love and loss and the power of family. - It is a story of redemption, and how, with grit and determination, anything is possible.