Dimensions
129 x 197 x 11mm
'All Fall Down' is a riveting adventure story set in Sydney in 1900.
Christabel McManus is a strong-willed fourteen-year-old from Sydney's upper classes. Since the death of her mother two years earlier, her father - the Government Inspector of Health for New South Wales - has thrown himself increasingly into his work, leaving Christable feeling lonely and resentful.
When Paddy Rafferty, a servant's eight-year-old son, is kidnapped by his villainous father to be trained as a pickpocket, Christabel decides to rescue the boy - by dressing as a boy herself and heading into the squalid and dangerous streets of The Rocks. What begins as a game takes a terrifying turn, as Christabel discovers that the notoriously violent gangs are not the only thing to be feared; an outbreak of the deadly bubonic plague is imminent. And when Christable, too, is kidnapped, the game becomes very dangerous indeed . . .
