The Daughters of the House

by Nicola Thorne

The Daughters of the House - bk28; Mayflower Book; Nicola Thorne; pocket_book; 1981

Genres: Historical Fiction

688 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2012

About the author

Nicola Thorne (real name: Rosemary Ellerbeck) was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father was English and her mother a New Sealander, and she was brought up and educated in England. She graduated in Sociology at the London School of Economics, but always wanted to pursue a literary career and worked as a reader and editor while writing her first novels. In 1975 she left publishing to write full and and has now written a number of successful novels under the pseudonym Nicola Thorne. She lives in St. John's Wood, London.

Reviews

[Lynn Hutchinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Powerful saga of the days of the Great exhibition.