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264 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780340855577
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Publication date: 16 October 2003
Description
It is Edinburgh, 1822, and young Robbie is eight years old when he witnesses his mother's pain and subsequent death from an operation - without anaesthetic - to remove a tumour from her breast at the hands of Dr Knox. Haunted by this terrible even...
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264 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780340855577
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Publication date: 16 October 2003
Description
It is Edinburgh, 1822, and young Robbie is eight years old when he witnesses his mother's pain and subsequent death from an operation - without anaesthetic - to remove a tumour from her breast at the hands of Dr Knox. Haunted by this terrible even...