Joey is a coster boy in the East End of London - selling oranges out of his shallow basket to make his living. He feels a bit different from the other barrow boys, as he knows that there is a mystery in his past - people say his real father was a lord. The mystery deepens when a man is murdered, and Joey becomes the chief susupect. He goes into hiding, but is determined to find out the truth both about the murder and about his father. Set in the first half of the nineteenth century, this is a beautifully-researched and atmospherically-written historical thriller.

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

Alison Prince is a much-loved and critically-acclaimed writer. She was the winner of the Guardian Fiction Award in 1994, and winner of the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year 2002 for her novel Orange and Murder.