Out of Human Sight

<p><strong>Bill O'Jack's Saddleworth 1832.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>She bent over it. Him. Bent over him; her grandfather's body his nose and brow beaten into his face a soft bloodied mess. She stepped back; saw her grandfather's shirt ripped open at the collarbone. She thought of the bright blood in the eggs she had cracked against the side of a bowl that morning and how she needed yeast. And teeth teeth caught in the soup like tiny nuggets of stale bread. A faint whistle came from his mouth the red stickiness bubbling. She crouched over him grasped at his collar with shaking hands.</em></p><p><br></p><p>The bloody battered and unrecognisable bodies of an innkeeper and his son are found in their remote village. As gore-seekers travel from across the country to witness the sight mill-worker Millie Bradbury her family and her discovery have become notorious and the focus of unwanted national attention.</p><p><br></p><p>But then popular local man Johnny Barkwell long the apple of Millie's eye offers her a life beyond the borders of her girlhood. The promise of marriage stability security and the chance for a new start in the shadow of tragedy.</p><p><br></p><p>This new beginning isn't what Millie would've chosen. But as a young wife with few choices she must comply and so Millie finds herself on a coffin ship heading to The Canadas.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Out of Human Sight</em> is a story of grief family and longing for home. The journey of a woman seeking a better life through desperation resilience and a will to survive.</p>