Workhouse Child

A good read. Sad but worth reading.

The book was interesting. It was a little depressing, however the characters did persevere.

Started out strong and was very interesting especially her childhood in the workhouse.The middle part was solid , but the last section seemed rushed.All in all, a recommend.

This was a very good book to read. It had you wanting to read the rest to see what happen.

Well written.It reflects how poor children were treated in the "olden days."Maggie Hope is an excellent story writer with correct historical happenings.

In general, it is a good story except for some parts the decisions of the charactersare not believable so I put it down for a couple of days.

This story kept me spell bounded all the way through it.

A Catherine Cookson style book absolutely fantastic.

Maggie Hope writes in Such a way that the reader can imagine exactly what her characters are like. This books tells the story of a workhouse girl who goes to work for a family and is abused. The girl runs away and is taken into another home where she falls in love with the son of the house and marries him. She miscarriage the longed for baby and her husband turns to gambling, as did his father. She eventually gets her own place and continues to write for the local paper after they had trained her. She has had some success in having a book published and writes every day. However she falls deeply in love with the editor of the paper after her husband committed suicide. The story does have a happy ending but don't want to give it away. A rags to riches tale.

I was captured in this story from page 1 Lottie was a workhouse orphan . She left the workhouse to work for a family but it didn't work out and she was rescued and worked as a maid for a nurse who was also her friend but things happen and Lottie had to grow up fast she struggled but did improve herself . Well worth a read I love the detail that Maggie puts in her books again we are in durham and surrounding areas well worth 5 STARS ..

I have been reading everything Anna Jacobs has written and loved all her books so wanted a new read that was along the same lines and set in the same era. Workhouse child seemed just exactly what I was looking for and I was excited to get started. I was severely disappointed as I found no substance to the story at all, it didn't hold my attention and to be honest I found it really boring and after only reading about 30% of it I am done with it

Nice read. Full of a child's courage and also, your heart goes out to children back then. The cruel way that they were perceived. Accident of birth and the trials and triblulations she went through. Interesting read.

I loved this story from beginning to end. So pleased I discovered Maggie. This is the 5th book I have read of hers and I have another 7 downloaded which I am sure I will thoroughly enjoy.

Held you in suspense though every chapter and hard to put down,well done to this amazing authoress, keep up your great writing.

This is the kind of book you can't put down,it has a great story line and strong characters that keep you engrossed from beginning to end, can't wait to read more of Maggie Hope's books.

A really good read - I thoroughly enjoyed this book and if you like Catherine Cookson, you'll definitely enjoy this. I will be reading more books by Maggie Hope

Lovely story, enjoyable read from start to finish

Absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this book . Couldn't put it down, hence the very late nights ! So well written/told, I could hear their Geordie accents as I read it .

good read, it's nice to know that orphans can make good

Loved una Hornes books and was very disappointed when she stopped writing and then I found out she wrought under an other name I bought three for my holidays and read them all. I just love the things she Wright’s about.

Best book ever now going to buy More of satome good luck the people where true to life need more like this

Give 5stars because I always enjoy Maggie hopes stories I think she's a great story teller and this book was great would have liked it to go on a bit longer.will recommend to all my family and friends.

Excellent, thank you