The Ferret Was Abraham's Daughter

by Fred Urquhart

The scene is Edinburgh, 1939. Lives are about to change. Blackout, bomb shelters, cinemas, dance halls, all call out to the girls and young women that life need not be dull. This book, set in one of the poorer areas, is full of the comedy and extraordinary dialogue for which Fred Urquhart is well known, and the Hipkiss family and its neighbours are foregrounded. But central is the imagination of young Bessie Hipkiss, aged fourteen, only just too old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849210934
• ISBN13: 9781849210935
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Kennedy & Boyd
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"