Elegy for Eddie

ISBN: 9780062049582 (paperback)
Physical Description: 335 pages ; 24 cm regular print print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2012.
Copyright: &copy;2012
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 4 / 5.0

Winspear, Jacqueline 1955- (author.).

Summary: "Early April, 1933. Maisie’s newest clients are the costermongers of Covent Garden, men who sell fruit and vegetables from horse-drawn carts on the streets of London. To the costers, Eddie Pettit was simply a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses, and when he is killed in a violent accident, the costers are skeptical about the cause of his death. Because her father, Frankie, had been a fellow costermonger, Maisie has known these men since childhood and remembers Eddie fondly, so she is determined to help, but it soon becomes clear that powerful political and financial forces are equally determined to prevent her from learning too much about Eddie’s death." --