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    Velvet

    By Mary Hooper

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    Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But Velvet soon realizes that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger . . .

    A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much loved historical writer for teens
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateNov 13, 2012
    ISBN9781599909295
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    Mary Hooper

    Mary Hooper is the author of more than 60 children’s and young adult books. She has two grown children and lives with her husband Richard in Oxfordshire, England, the same area Anne Green came from.

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