Yours From the Tower, 9781839134814
Paperback
Victorian letters reveal friendship, romance, and the search for happiness.

Yours From the Tower

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    4 July 2024

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Summary

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize Nominated for the Carnegie Medal

  1. Tirzah, Sophia and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas … and their romances. Can th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781839134814
ISBN-10:183913481X
Author:Sally Nicholls
Publisher:Andersen Press Ltd
Imprint:Andersen Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:4 July 2024
Weight:310g
Dimensions:200mm x 130mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

An addictive, romantic epistolary novel * Guardian *I loved this book. An unputdownable friendship story told in letters so vivid and immersive that I felt like joining in with the correspondence – Hilary McKayBuilding on her previous historical fiction exploring the restrictions on women in society, the award-winning, always-excellent Sally Nicholls moves to the late Victorian era… This immersive, uplifting book is an absolute delight * Irish Times *With great affection and sympathy, these winning heroines forge their own paths in this highly readable, tautly paced work – starred review * Publishers Weekly *The novel is heart-warming, intelligent and exciting, and thoroughly recommended for girls (and boys) hovering on the cusp of adolescence. I loved it – Philip Womack * Literary Review *

About The Author

Sally Nicholls

Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally’s first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.

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