Noel Streatfeild 2-book Collection: Thursday's Child and Far to Go

by Noel Streatfeild

Overview

Join the unforgettable heroine Margaret Thursday as she makes her way from an orphanage to the stage in this ebook collection containing the classic novels Thursday’s Child and Far to Go by Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.

Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. But she isn’t really an orphan – each year a bag of gold coins is left at the church for her keep. However, when Margaret is eleven years old, the money suddenly stops and her guardians have no choice but to send her away to an orphanage.

This is where Margaret’s story really begins, taking her and her new friends from orphanage to canal boat and eventually to the theatre. But Margaret will have to outwit her archenemy, the cruel matron of the orphanage, at every turn…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008384890
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/02/2020
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	9 Years

About the Author

Noel Streatfeild, the plain middle child between two talented and pretty sisters, trained at RADA and acted for nine years before writing Ballet Shoes, an instant bestseller, in 1936. As vicarage daughter, factory girl, actress, model, social worker, writer, and crusader for good books, Noel touched many aspects of life. Her experiences enriched her stories, which were so popular that, by her eightieth birthday, she had earned herself the title of ‘a national monument’. She died in 1986.

Noel Streatfeild, the plain middle child between two talented and pretty sisters, trained at RADA and acted for nine years before writing Ballet Shoes, an instant bestseller, in 1936. As vicarage daughter, factory girl, actress, model, social worker, writer, and crusader for good books, Noel touched many aspects of life. Her experiences enriched her stories, which were so popular that, by her eightieth birthday, she had earned herself the title of ‘a national monument’. She died in 1986.