The Barrow Girl
Nell Harte
Ebba learned at an early age that life was harsh on the streets of London. She only ever wanted enough food in her belly. She never thought she would be sent to prison.
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Eight year old Ebba Larcher helps her costermonger family eke out a living hawking watercress on the streets of London.
When Ebba is savagely beaten by a street gang and her earnings stolen, Ebba is taken off the streets for her safety, and sent to school where she makes a sworn enemy of the tyrannical school master. In a cruel act of retaliation against Ebba, the school master uses his influence to force the Larcher family out of their home and into the sordid slums where their demise is all but ensured, and Ebba must once more survive the dangerous gangs of London.
Ten years later, with her sister now in a miserable, poverty ridden, common law union, Ebba fights for a place in the market square vowing never to allow her financial independence to be taken from her.
But pressure increases from the brick and mortar stores and the police are called to wage war on the costermongers. As Ebba’s precious goods are destroyed and her livelihood threatened, fate intervenes, and a surprising declaration of love offers Ebba a way forward.
Before Ebba can make a decision, violence erupts, and Ebba is trapped in a terrible riot. Gaoled for a bloody crime she did not commit, Ebba finds herself serving time with a dangerous childhood foe.
Ebba’s life seems doomed. Will Ebba languish in prison, at the behest of clever and cruel inmates or does fate intervene and bring Ebba to a life and a love she never could have imagined.
If you love sweet and clean historical romance, you will love Nell Harte Books
Other books by Nell Harte
The Millworkers Daughter
The Orphan Dancer’s Desperation
The Slum Widow
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