Winchelsea

By Alex Preston

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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. But when she turns sixteen, her father is murdered by men he thought were friends.

In a town where lawlessness prevails, Goody and her brother Francis must enter the cut-throat world of her father's killers in order to find justice. Facing high seas and desperate villains, she discovers what life can be like without constraints or expectations, developing a taste for danger that makes her blood run fast.

Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1838854878
• ISBN13: 9781838854874
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"