Book Tour & Review #The Bad Penny #Lindsey Hutchinson #Publisher: Boldwood Books # British & Irish Historical Literature #Historical Fiction
MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW The Bad Penny is a very clean romance enjoyable read with a lot of incidents that circle around friendships and various people particularly what is going on with the two characters Jared Johnson and Clarice Connaught. If you have already read the other book in the series "Ragged Orphan", this can be read as a standalone novel as well. Jared works for the Big Irishman Toby McGuire who lives in Ivy Lane and has no choice. I admired the relationship Jared shared with Toby and his wife Alice. Jared's mother had died of starvation and his sister had succumbed to sickness. Jared rules the notorious Mr McGuire's territory. In Bad Penny, the young man Jared who is the same age as Clarice saves her from a severe beating by her father along Erskine Street. Clarice accuses her father of being a boozer and a nasty drunker who is incapable of raising her even though he has a job at the brickworks, he spends most of his wages boozing. At the same time...