After tragedy tears her family apart, Jordan March is shipped off by her domineering Grandmother Emma to live with Emma's long-forgotten sister. Shuttered in a rundown farmhouse, Aunt Frances is the strangest person Jordan has ever met. Why has Grandmother hidden away this fragile, harmless woman? Did Frances grow up much too fast, like Jordan did? In the shadows of the farmhouse, Jordan is about to unearth the shattering truth - with terrible and far-reaching repercussions for the March family.

In nineteenth-century England poverty was more hideous and widespread than ever before. Broadside ballads told the tale aloud in part-issue on English streets. Here for the first time is a systematic study and anthology of what they said.

The second book in Andrews's compelling Early Spring series about a young girl who grows up too fast and discovers her family's hidden secrets in the attic.

The second volume of this study and anthology otters sixty-four broadside ballads divided into eight groups: beggars, children on the street, poor people in work, poor people in love, etc. Each section is ordered chronologically and has an introductory survey. It includes substantial commentaries on many ballads, including factual and literary backgrounds, printing histories, and a listing of 1,200 broadside ballads on poverty.