The Slaidburn Angel

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Abuse, Social & Cultural Studies, True Crime, Murder, History, British
Cover of the book The Slaidburn Angel by M. Sheelagh Whittaker, Dundurn
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Author: M. Sheelagh Whittaker ISBN: 9781459703650
Publisher: Dundurn Publication: July 14, 2012
Imprint: Dundurn Language: English
Author: M. Sheelagh Whittaker
ISBN: 9781459703650
Publisher: Dundurn
Publication: July 14, 2012
Imprint: Dundurn
Language: English

While researching her ancestry on the Internet one gloomy evening, Penny is astonished by what she finds. Urgently, she instructs her sister Sheelagh, "Search 'Slaidburn Suspected Child Murder!' Now!" So begins a remarkable story within a story spanning more than a century.

In 1885 Yorkshire, sisters Grace and Isabella, accused of murdering Grace's secret illegitimate toddler, were on trial for their lives. A sadly neglected two-year-old boy was dead following a failed attempt to lodge him at a workhouse. A tense and sensational trial followed in Victorian-era Leeds.

Sheelagh and Penny began keenly re-investigating these events. They feel personally involved because a prosecution witness at the murder trial, nine-year-old Margaret Isherwood, would later become their grandmother. The book grips us with dramatic events, but also touches us with the abiding loyalty of sisterhood, the desperate power of our need for love, and the crazy things that it can make us do.

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While researching her ancestry on the Internet one gloomy evening, Penny is astonished by what she finds. Urgently, she instructs her sister Sheelagh, "Search 'Slaidburn Suspected Child Murder!' Now!" So begins a remarkable story within a story spanning more than a century.

In 1885 Yorkshire, sisters Grace and Isabella, accused of murdering Grace's secret illegitimate toddler, were on trial for their lives. A sadly neglected two-year-old boy was dead following a failed attempt to lodge him at a workhouse. A tense and sensational trial followed in Victorian-era Leeds.

Sheelagh and Penny began keenly re-investigating these events. They feel personally involved because a prosecution witness at the murder trial, nine-year-old Margaret Isherwood, would later become their grandmother. The book grips us with dramatic events, but also touches us with the abiding loyalty of sisterhood, the desperate power of our need for love, and the crazy things that it can make us do.

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