The Letter

A cry for help will tear a family apart... Another gripping and dramatic family drama from the nation''s favourite storyteller Bella can''t wait to be married to her fiancee Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid. Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fourteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued. When the two sisters take a trip to find out the truth, things take a troubling turn. Millie is brought home to live with them, her only possessions her ill-fitting clothes and a tatty suitcase. But soon they are questioning this act of kindness. Does their teenaged cousin just need some love and kindness? Or is she a troublemaker, with only mischief and malice on her mind...?

Product details

• Authors: Josephine Cox, Cox Josephine
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9780008128623
• ISBN: 978-0-00-812862-3
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Friendship, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Lancashire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Relating to adolescence / teenage years, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary