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Winchelsea
Winchelsea | 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. 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.
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“Murder, treason and illicit embraces…chases, battles and perilous high-seas skulduggery…international espionage, a whisper of witchcraft, and a cast of orphans, rogues and redcoats.” I admit the chases, battles and skulduggery lost me at times but at it‘s heart this was Goody‘s story, and what a heartbreaking yet hopeful story it is “…recognising that I felt most comfortable neither as woman nor man, but in the space between.”