The colour of milk - BookWyrm.de

Sprache: English

Erschienen am 2013

ISBN:: 978-1-4448-1662-4
OCLC-Nummer:: 851390452

"The year is eighteen-hundred-and-thirty-one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life working on her father's farm alongside her three sisters. In the summer she is sent to work for the local vicar's invalid wife, where the reasons why she must record the truth of what happens to her - and the need to record it so urgently - are gradually revealed."--Publisher description.

6 Auflagen

Nook&Cranny hat Colour of Milk von Nell Leyshon besprochen

The saddest book I ever read

5 Sterne

Inhaltswarnung Talking about the outcome of the story.

... and then I shall be free.

A short story about a witty but uneducated farm girl, how she got sold by her father to the local priest to take care of his sick wife, and how he, after his wife died, started to teach her to read and to write .. at an unspeakable cost for her.

The book starts easy. An all-day story about the hardships Mary's family has to live through to keep everyone fed. Word by word, line by line a story gets unveiled that will leave you just sad, shocked and helpless.

At first glance it might not be a happy end but for Mary, the rope could be THE happy end.

A brilliant book. If not for Christmas time I guess I could have read it in one day.

Nook & Cranny (Backup) hat Colour of Milk von Nell Leyshon besprochen

The saddest book I ever read

5 Sterne

... and then I shall be free.

A short story about a witty but uneducated farm girl, how she got sold by her father to the local priest to take care of his sick wife, and how he, after his wife died, started to teach her to read and to write .. at an unspeakable cost for her.

The book starts easy. An all-day story about the hardships Mary's family has to live through to keep everyone fed. Word by word, line by line a story gets unveiled that will leave you just sad, shocked and helpless.

At first glance it might not be a happy end but for Mary, the rope could be THE happy end.

A brilliant book. If not for Christmas time I guess I could have read it in one day.

... and then I shall be free.

A short story about a witty but uneducated farm girl, how she got sold by her father to the local priest to take care of his sick wife, and how he, after his wife died, started to teach her to read and to write .. at an unspeakable cost for her.

The book starts easy. An all-day story about the hardships Mary's family has to live through to keep everyone fed. Word by word, line by line a story gets unveiled that will leave you just sad, shocked and helpless.

At first glance it might not be a happy end but for Mary, the rope could be THE happy end.

A brilliant book. If not for Christmas time I guess I could have read it in one day.

Themen

Fiction
History

Orte

Great Britain