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The Beggar Maid

The heart-warming historical romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The Beggar Maid

By: Dilly Court
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
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The wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family.

From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets.

When he grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. Jethro takes Charity in to help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop.

Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well treated, but Jethro instills in her the love of books that began when her grandmother taught her to read. And she starts to hope for a better future for herself.

But Jethro dies unexpectedly, and Charity is faced with eviction when the rent is raised by the unscrupulous landlord. Must Charity give up her dream of running the bookshop herself, and worse, be forced to return to the streets...?

 Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Victorian
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Atmospheric, vivid and compelling.
There's a depth to her characters, and the locations are vividly drawn
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I really enjoyed the whole story and it was well read and felt I knew the characters

Hope and courage in adversity

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Loved it and was drawn in to the characters from the very beginning.
my second book by Dilly Court love her as an author and am already searching her for my next book

Bought Victorian London to life

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Charity Cross was such a lovely young lady who helped everyone she could. She loved Harry so much and it was a beautiful love story ❤️

Charity Cross was a lovely young lady

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A tale you could not put down gripping storey very well told a must for anyone

Begged maid

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I don’t usually get into a book so quickly but this story had me hooked from the beginning. Loved listening to Annie Aldington narrating this lovely story from start to finish.

I would definitely recommend this book.

Lovely story well narrated

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