Winchelsea

AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4A SPECTATOR BEST OF THE YEAR - AS CHOSEN BY REVIEWERS. 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?