Velvet by Mary Hooper

Velvet

Mary Hooper

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction historical young adult slow-paced

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Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life.   Then she i...

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