Advantages: An absorbing novel with factual description Disadvantages: None!
Review of Water Gypsies by Annie Murray.
Not an audio book, please disregard specific criteria!
ISBN 0330492144
Paperback novel- 458 pages.
Published by MacMillan in 2004.
Cover price £6.99
The Plot
Water Gypsies is a modern fiction novel by popular female author Annie Murray. The story is set in 1942 and follows the life of narrowboat skipper's wife, Maryann Bartholomew.
Maryann and her husband Joel work the canal system around Birmingham in their narrowboat Theodore and butty, Esther Jane . The life is a hard one, loads to be collected and delivered, children to raise and care for, all in the confines of a seven by nine foot narrowboat boater's cabin.
Maryann had a life of suffering as a child growing up in Birmingham and her past often comes back to haunt her. She has recurring nightmares of the horrors she faced ...
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