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  • By: Mick Kitson
  • Narrated by: Katy Sobey
  • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Annie Perry is born beside the coal-muddied canals of the Black Country, at the height of the Industrial Revolution. The youngest in a large Romani family who cannot afford to keep her, when she is eight years old, Annie is sold as a servant to the famous and feared bare-knuckle boxer Bill Perry, The Tipton Slasher.

Bill is starting to lose his strength, but refuses to give up his crown. When it looks like a fight might become Bill's last, Annie steps into the ring, fists raised in his defence. From that moment, she is determined to train and follow in Bill's footsteps, to learn to fight for herself. But Annie has been doing this all along.

A whole new world opens up for Annie, one of love, fortune, family and education, but also of danger. One wrong move, one misstep and the course of her life will be changed forever.
©2021 Mick Kitson (P)2021 Canongate Books Ltd
Coming of Age Historical Fiction
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Featherweight - neither lightweight nor heavy

After the unforgettable Sal, Mick Kitson gives a compelling voice to another intrepid, unusual and resourceful young female hero. She had me hooked from the beginning to the end of her extraordinary adventures! The writing skips nimbly through a time and place of great upheaval, and you learn effortlessly along the way. The narrator strikes the right tone and captures the accents and vernacular. I thoroughly enjoyed this story.

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