Winchelsea

AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4The 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.

ISBN:	9781838854843
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Imprint:	Canongate
Published date:	03 Feb 2022
DEWEY:	823.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	6931
Number of pages:	336
Weight:	458g
Height:	146mm
Width:	224mm
Spine width:	38mm

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