Ursula Under Paperback / softback
by Ingrid Hill
Paperback / softback
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A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has captured the attention of the entire country.
A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. Ursula Wong is the only child of a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the expense.
But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity.
Ursula's forebears include a second-century BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty-nine.
Ursula's fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:27/07/2015
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- ISBN:9781784702137
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:27/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784702137