Catherine Cookson – The Rag Nymph

Young Millie Forester is sent to stay in a convent after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel and the attentions of the brothel-owner are turned on the girl. However, the lively ten-year-old soon falls foul of the nuns’ bigotry and she returns to the care of ‘Raggie Aggie’. As a grown up and beautiful woman she is exposed to the corrupting influences of the Newcastle streets at the turn of the century and is abducted to the same brothel in which her mother died.