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|author=Angela McAllister
|title=The Double Life of Cora Parry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When the mean, controlling woman who Cora has been living with dies, Cora thinks she is finally free to live as she chooses. However, fate is against her and she ends up abandoned, alone, on the streets of Victorian London. Desperate not to go back to the workhouse where her mother died she finds herself drawn into the world of Fletch, a street kid who teaches Cora how to survive by thieving and confidence tricks. Although this goes against Cora's conscience she has to find a way to survive, and as a coping strategy she imagines another persona for herself, Carrie, who carries out all the illegal activities leaving Cora free from guilt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556037</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Caveney