| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
366 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
In 1933, Ruby Abel Tailor is 13 years old, growing up in the town of Cradle Cross, in the heart of England's coal-dusted Black Country. Ruby lives with her grandmother, works at a chip shop, and dreams of running away. One day, a mysterious stranger arrives: elegant, white-haired Isa Fly, who has come to town to fulfill her dying father's request that she find a long-lost half-sister. Eccentric Isa quickly draws the scorn of the townspeople, especially after she and Ruby befriend the owner of the town's main industry, Blick's Button Factory. As Blick's tips into a steep financial decline, prized possessions all over town go missing, and Ruby questions Isa's motives. |
| Subject |
Black Country (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Factories -- England -- Fiction.
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City and town life -- England -- Black Country -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781400068685 cloth alkaline paper |
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1400068681 cloth alkaline paper |
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