The Periwinkle Wreath

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Following on from the events in the award-winning novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Beyond the Fells The Periwinkle Wreath </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>tells the story of self-educated Louisa whose life is thrown into turmoil when she finds herself pregnant and alone on a remote track in Westmorland in the early 19th century. A chance meeting with a Good Samaritan enables her to escape her isolated community and head for London where her daughter is admitted to the care of the Foundling Hospital.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Struggling with the gender and class wars of the period Louisa's life takes a turn for the better when she finds employment in a coffeehouse which proves to be a haven for radicals. Politics and love intervene as she discovers fulfilment fighting for emancipation with the Chartist movement; but her overwhelming desire is to be reunited with her daughter.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Will Louisa find a way to see her child again and can she fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a teacher? </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Periwinkle Wreath </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>is a complex poignant and engaging story that follows a path shared by many rural families in the early 1800's.</span></p><p></p>