Cradle of Thorns by Josephine Cox

Cradle of Thorns by Josephine Cox

Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's farm. But for all her aunt's spiteful attempts to break Nell's independent spirit, she has never succeeded. But now Nell, pregnant and alone, is forced to leave behind the men in her life, believing she might never be able to return. With little but the clothes she wears, she travels across the Bedfordshire countryside of 1890. When she encounters a scruffy urchin called Kit, a ten-year-old orphan who's lived his whole life on the streets, she takes him under her wing. The pair become devoted friends, never knowing where their journey will take them, but each aware that the time will come when there must be a reckoning.

Praise for Josephine Cox: 'Impossible to resist * Woman's Realm *
Driven and passionate * The Sunday Times *
Hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson * Manchester Evening News *

Josephine Cox was born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching - and started to write her first full-length novel. Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life.

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ISBN 13	9780747249573
ISBN 10	0747249571
Title	Cradle of Thorns
Author	Josephine Cox
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	1997-08-07
Number of pages	448
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