Fallen Grace

By Mary Hooper

Subjects: Mentally handicapped, Swindlers and swindling, Poverty, Undertakers and undertaking, Funeral homes, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Orphans, Sisters, Juvenile fiction, History, People with mental disabilities

Description: In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.