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      Stone Cradle

      by Louise Doughty
      Published
      Jan 2006
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      400
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      FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE

      Captivating and beautifully written.' Mirror


      From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard comes this story of three generations of one Romany family in England, as they face family life, love and marriage along with the changes and upheavals for Travelling people at the turn of the nineteenth century.


      Clementina Smith is just a young girl when she gives birth to her illegitimate son, Elijah, in a graveyard in Victorian Cambridgeshire. Others have been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's parents stick by her and Elijah grows up greatly loved by his small but tight-knit family. But then he meets Rose, a non-Romany girl.

      Based on Louise Doughty's own family history, Stone Cradle is a love triangle between a mother, a son and his wife that asks whether the Romany spirit and traditions can survive as rural Britain moves into the modern world.

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      First Edition Jan 2006 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780743220903 ISBN10 0743220900
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      Jun 2014 Simon & Schuster (UK) ISBN13 9781471137570 ISBN10 1471137570
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      Nov 2014 Faber and Faber (UK) ISBN13 9780571315833 ISBN10 0571315836
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      Nov 2014 Faber & Faber Fiction ISBN10 B00N01MW34
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