Winchelsea Preston Alex
Winchelsea Preston Alex Spectator - Books of the Year II - Chosen by Our Regular ReviewersThe year is 1742. Then, when Goody turns sixteen, her father is murdered in the night by men he thought were…
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Winchelsea Preston Alex
Spectator - Books of the Year II - Chosen by Our Regular ReviewersThe year is 1742. 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. Goody Brown, saved from drowning and adopted when just a babe, has grown up happily in the smuggling town of Winchelsea.
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. With her beloved brother Francis, she joins a rival gang of smugglers. But what will she become instead?Winchelsea is an electrifying story of vengeance and transformation; a rare, lyrical and transporting work of historical imagination