Winchelsea [electronic resource]
Preston, Alex, 1979-2022
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The year is 1742. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea. Then, when Goody turns sixteen, her father is murdered in the night by men he thought were friends.To find justice in a lawless land, Goody must enter the cut-throat world of her father's killers. With her beloved brother Francis, she joins a rival gang of smugglers. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she also discovers something else: an existence without constraints or expectations, a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast.Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead?Winchelsea is an electrifying story of vengeance and transformation; a rare, lyrical and transporting work of historical imagination that makes the past so real we can touch it.
Main title:
Winchelsea [electronic resource] / Preston, Alex.
Author:
Preston, Alex, 1979-, authorCloud
Work:
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Canongate Books, 2022.
Collation:
1 online resource352 p.
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Canongate Books 2022 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 8.4 MB)
ISBN:
9781838854850
Language:
English
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BRN:
742722