Stone cradle
by Louise Doughty
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Clementina Smith is a young girl when she gives birth to her illegitimate son, Elijah. Others have been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's Dei and Dadus stick by her and Elijah grows up greatly loved by his small but tight-knit family. But then he meets a non-Romany girl From the farms of the Fens in the 1870s through the backstreets of Victorian Cambridge to modern-day Peterborough, Stone Cradle charts the history of three generations of one extended family. How do Travellers adapt to a century that no longer needs them? And what is everyone to do when two women in a family can hardly stand the sight of one another?
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Stone cradle
2007, Magna, Magna Large Print Books
in English
- Large print ed.
0750526572 9780750526579
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Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
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Clementina is barely sixteen when she falls pregnant. Other girls had been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's Dei and Dadus stand by her. But the Travellers are treated with suspicion wherever they go, and soon the family are rounded up by the 'gavvers', accused of poisoning local livestock.
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