Wycroft

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
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Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Signed By Author

Publishers Description: Set in Lancashire in the late 1700's, Christine Shuttleworth's sequel to The Seamstress of Carrington Hall follows the lives of Sir Valdo and Lady Fleetwood Lee Carringtons' adult children.Set in Lancashire in the time of building the Burnleyembankment for the Leeds/Liverpool Canal, this novelfollows the lives of Sir Valdo and Lady Fleetwood LeeCarringtons' adult children.Louisa Lee Carrington. Beautiful, headstrong and wilful, and forbidden to visit the gypsies unchaperoned, she defies her father and is caught spying on their camp with far-reaching consequences.Everand Lee Carrington, the second son. Interested in the building of canals and the study of hydrology, hestruggles to find his place in an unforgiving society.Richard Lee Carrington. First born and heir to theCarrington Estate. Troubled by arable land eroded for coal mining and canal building and the diverging interests of the estate he will inherit.And the gypsies...Tyler St Clair, a gypsy orphaned in a Yorkshire snowstorm and raised by the Benedictine monks of SelbyAbbey. As a formally educated young man unable toaccept the confines of monastic life, he leaves the abbey and joins the gypsies, now camped on the Carrington Estate.With the past coming back to haunt Fleetwood, and her children growing up and establishing their own lives, who could have foreseen the impact the gypsies would have on her family?

ISBN: 9781987681437