Sixpence in Her Shoe

Frances McNeil

earliest edition we have, 2006 Orion Publishing, 2007 paperback 448 pages

When Jessica Price was a little girl, her father, a shoemender, gave her a beautiful new pair of shoes with a sixpence hidden in the toe of one. From the fairies, he explained: 'For luck, and to say you have far to go in life.' But in this captivating novel set in working-class Leeds in the 1920s, it is Jess who, with her generous heart, makes her own luck. Growing up in the aftermath of the Great War, Jess is torn b...

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Sixpence in Her Shoe paperback · 2007 · Orion Publishing · 448 pages · 9780752881645
Sixpence in her shoe edition · 2007 · Magna Large Print Books · 462 pages · 9780750526845
Sixpence in Her Shoe paperback · 2006 · Orion Publishing · 400 pages · 9780752874326
Sixpence in Her Shoe hardcover · 2006 · Orion Publishing · 400 pages · 9780752868523

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