The Long Walk Home

by Valerie Wood and Val Wood

Book Overview

Young Mikey Quinn, scavenging on the streets of Hull, is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from the butcher. His chief accuser, a well-to-do lawyer, has a daughter, Eleanor, whom he badly mistreats. When Mikey is released he finds that his mother has died and his brothers taken into the workhouse - determined to find a better life for his family, he walks all the way to London to seek his fortune. There he finds that the grim realities of city...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552176265
• ISBN13: 9780552176262
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.8" x 7.7"