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Workhouse Orphans
- Author
- Holly Green
- Narrator
- Julie Maisey
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 24 August 2017
- Run Time
- 11 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Workhouse Orphans by Holly Green, read by Julie Maisey.
All they have left is each other...
Life has always been tough for May and Gus Lavender. Their father went away to sea never to return, and then their mother falls victim to the typhus sweeping through Liverpool. Regarded as orphans by the authorities, May and Gus are sent to the Brownlow Hill Workhouse.
Like all workhouses, Brownlow is the last resort for the poor and the destitute. May and Gus will have to rely on each other more than ever if they are to survive the hardships to come...
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Details
- Author
- Holly Green
- Narrator
- Julie Maisey
- Duration
- 11 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 August 2017
- ISBN
- 9781473553477
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Historical romance, Family life fiction
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Workhouse Orphans by Holly Green, read by Julie Maisey.All they have left is each other...Life has always been tough for May and Gus Lavender. Their father went away to sea never to return, and then their mother falls victim to the typhus sweeping through Liverpool. Regarded as orphans by the authorities, May and Gus are sent to the Brownlow Hill Workhouse. Like all workhouses, Brownlow is the last resort for the poor and the destitute. May and Gus will have to rely on each other more than ever if they are to survive the hardships to come...
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