AuthorJamila Gavin
NarratorMaria Darling
Duration8h 50m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
In the late 1700s your circumstance of birth meant everything. Toby and Aaron may both find themselves living at Captain Thomas Coram's Hospital for parentless children, but their histories are as far apart as they could possibly be. Toby has been rescued from a life of slave labour in a faraway country; Aaron is the illegitimate son of the heir to a large country estate. They are watched over by Mish--a simple soul who has been with them since their arrival. His devotion to them is absolute, but his motives are not altogether straightforward. Could this curious man really be Meshak, the son of a wicked child-killer who was hanged at the gallows for his crimes? Winner of the Whitbread Children's Award.
Author: Jamila Gavin
Author Jamila Gavin
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 7h 20m
A highly-praised book about the lives of a brother and sister living in India in the 1940's who must battle for survival amid the civil war, and their hopes of finding their father in England. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Award
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