Author: Anthony Trollope

Retold: J. Y. K. Kerr

Published: 1995

Publisher: Penguin Pearson

Format: Paperback (Penguin Readers Series)

Pages: 76

Suitable: Upper Primary / Secondary

Penguin Readers Level 5 -2300 Headwords

Penguin Readers are simplified texts which provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure

Should Septimus Harding leave his job as warden of Hiram's Hospital? It seems simple but soon his family, friends, the people in his town and church, and then the newspapers and the whole country are talking about it