Author(s): Penny Matthews
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 144
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
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Date Published: 2012-04-26
Dimensions: 130 x 199 x 10mm
Publication City/Country: Hawthorn, Australia
Edition: 2nd edition
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It's 1849 . . . and Nellie is starting her new life as a kitchen maid in a grand Adelaide house with her best friend, Mary. But Nellie's desire to live out her dreams soon leads to a battle with the spiteful cook Bessie Rudge...... Can Nellie keep her temper and avoid being thrown out to beg on the streets? And why is Mary acting so strangely? Follow Nellie on her adventure in the second of four exciting stories about an Irish girl with a big heart, in search of the freedom to be herself.