For twelve-year-old Mary Ann Clark life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk, it is no surprise that she has grown up afraid of her own shadow. That is until 'Battling Bessie Ruddick' takes the young girl under her wing and into the heart of her bustling family. Flame-haired Jeannie Buchanan has spent all her life in the shadow of the dark North Sea. Working with freezing fingers to gut the precious herring, she follows the fleet south, travelling far away from her Scottish home.
- ISBN13 9780330545440
- Publish Date 1 January 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 November 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format Paperback
- Language English