The Runaway

By Audrey Reimann

Will he ever find what he's looking for?

Oliver Wainwright is still a boy when he first sets eyes on the fair delicate Florence - the aristocratic granddaughter of Sir Philip Oldfield. And determined never to be a servant or follow in his father's footsteps as a quarry worker on the Oldfield estate he runs away to Middlefield that very day.

Slowly but surely he sets about becoming a man of property and a cotton industry king. He works single-mindedly to achieve his ambition - until he meets Rosie a married mill hand who distracts him with her dark warm beauty. Has Oliver finally found what he really wanted all along?

Set against a background of the Lancashire/Cheshire cotton industry The Runaway is a magnificent saga of a young man's rise to power his passion and poverty feuds and triumphs and the two very different women who shape his life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785034898
• ISBN13: 9781785034893
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.8"