Downloadable audio file. Duration: 5:45:59. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Read by Susan Duerden.
Summary:
In Meg Rosoff's novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart. Pell is from a poor preacher's family and she's watched her mother suffer for years under the burden of caring for an ever-increasing number of children. Pell years to escape the inevitable repetition of such a life.
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