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ISBN: 9780099363118 - The Herring Girls
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The Herring Girls

Theresa Tomlinson

ISBN: 9780099363118
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Random House Children's Publishers UK
Edition: New edition


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With her mother paralyzed, 13-year-old Dory Lythe is determined to save her brothers and sisters from the workhouse. When the herring fleet arrives in Whitby and the big Scottish girls come south to gut the fish, Dory resolves to rise above the brutal reality of life as a herring girl.

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With her mother paralyzed, 13-year-old Dory Lythe is determined to save her brothers and sisters from the workhouse. When the herring fleet arrives in Whitby and the big Scottish girls come south to gut the fish, Dory resolves to rise above the brutal reality of life as a herring girl.
 
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