What is a poor (extremely poor) young girl to do when she is suddenly orphaned in Cornwall? For Red, the fiercely clever protagonist of Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s twisty historical tale The Square of Sevens, the only option is to use what she can learn about her mysterious heritage to fight her way to a life-changing inheritance. Red must do battle with vicious aristocrats, greedy folk of all stripes, and eminently bribable magistrates armed only with her wits. Shepherd-Robinson makes nothing easy for her heroine...

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