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|author=Anthony Quinn
|title=The Streets
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Anthony Quinn's ''The Streets'' is set in London in the early 1880s in the area known as Somers Town, which to those not familiar with London geography is the area around Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross stations. Today, much of this falls under the trendy Camden area, but in the 1880s, was the site of some of the worst slum tenements in the capital. Some 50 years' earlier, Charles Dickens lived in this part of London and although he had died by the time this is set, the depiction of the poverty is not far from what we would term Dickensian. The book is narrated by David Wildeblood, who is a principled but naive young man who finds employment as an 'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmont's ''The Labouring Classes of London'' - a strange mix of social geography and journalism publishing regular stories of the poor who reside in the slums of London.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575159</amazonuk>
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|author=Ruth Thomas
|summary=Dear Lucy. Dear, sweet Lucy. Lucy lives on a farm with Mister and Missus, but the only person who is truly kind to her is Samantha, who lives there with them. Lucy finds it difficult, sometimes. She doesn’t always have the words she needs. She tries very hard to be good but sometimes her helping is more of a hindrance. But she knows more that people think. She knows that although Mum Mum sent her to live on the farm, she will come back for her one day. That is why Lucy must never leave the farm, otherwise Mum Mum won’t know where to find her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444767585</amazonuk>
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