by Annie Murray · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330434010
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«Miss Purdy's Class» is Annie Murray's historical novel, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (528 pages, in English).
In 1936, 21-year-old Gwen Purdy arrives in Birmingham to teach in a poor neighborhood. She discovers the harsh lives of her pupils, meets Lucy Fernández and her brother Daniel, of Spanish roots in Wales, and falls in love with him. Together they fight for working-class rights, while the Spanish Civil War approaches and Daniel hides a past.
The edition is complete and was originally published in 2005; the action takes place in 1930s Birmingham.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and social fiction set in the twentieth century.
Annie Murray is an English writer, best known for series about women and children in war time and for her bestselling novels featuring the Cadbury factory in Bournville, Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and many others. Her novel, Where Earth Meets Sky (2007), was nominated for Romantic Historical Novel of the Year by the Romantic Novelists Association. Her latest novel, The Pearl Button Girl, was published in 2025.
