by Annie Murray · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330396288
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«The Narrowboat Girl» is the historical and romantic novel by Annie Murray, published by Pan Books in paperback (300 pages, in English).
Young Maryann Nelson loses her father and her mother marries Norman Griffin, the local undertaker, who hides his true nature. Maryann and Sal discover that truth, and Maryann runs away with Joel and discovers life on the canals aboard the narrowboat Esther Jane; her feelings for Joel awaken old fears and she flees again.
Annie Murray started the Narrowboat Girl series with this work, originally published in 2001.
For adult readers seeking historical fiction with romance in early 20th-century England.
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.
