TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaine,Margaret
TI  - The black silk
SN  - 9780750546409
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Long Preston
PB  - Magna
KW  - Household employees
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Single women
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Death
KW  - Abused children
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Large type books
N2  - Sent to the workhouse as a child, all Ella Hathaway can remember is a voice whispering, 'Dearie, promise you will never forget what you saw. Your Ma was killed deliberate... and someone oughter pay for it.' When young, wealthy spinster Letitia Fairchild witnesses Ella being ill-treated, she takes her in as a scullery maid. But as Ella grows up, she is determined to find the truth about her mother's tragic death and appeals to Letitia for help, revealing her only personal possession, a black silk purse. Intrigued, Letitia agrees to begin a quest to solve the mystery of Ella's past. But there are astonishing and dramatic consequences
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