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Cradle of Thorns

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19th January 2012

Price: £9.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9780755384402

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Forced to flee from home, a young woman faces the unknown… but not alone.

Cradle of Thorns is a spell-binding tale of freedom in the face of fear from bestselling author Josephine Cox. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Lindsey Hutchinson.


Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father’s burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister’s farm. But for all her aunt’s spiteful attempts to break Nell’s independent spirit, she has never succeeded. But now Nell, pregnant and alone, is forced to leave behind the men in her life, believing she might never be able to return.

With little but the clothes she wears, she travels across the Bedfordshire countryside of 1890. When she encounters a scruffy urchin called Kit, a ten-year-old orphan who’s lived his whole life on the streets, she takes him under her wing. The pair become devoted friends, never knowing where their journey will take them, but each aware that the time will come when there must be a reckoning.

What readers are saying about Cradle of Thorns:

‘What a fantastic read. As soon as I started reading couldn’t put the book down, each turn of the page the story gets better and better

Best read in ages. Couldn’t put it down – some sad parts, some funny, so real it draws you in

‘I was captivated by the story from beginning to end’

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Reviews

The Sunday Times
Driven and passionate
Woman's Realm
Impossible to resist
Birmingham Post
Josephine Cox brings so much freshness to the plot, and the characters ... A Cookson by any other name
Manchester Evening News
Hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson