A daughter's promise

Summers, Judy2023

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Liverpool, 1861. Annie Shaw longs to be taken seriously. At 14, she's fed up of being babied by her secretive big sister Delilah. When Annie's old friend Clara visits with tales of the good money that can be made at the cotton mill outside Ormskirk, she sees her chance at adventure and runs away. The work is gruelling and Annie is shocked to witness children as young as eight working long days around dangerous machinery. But it seems that, as long as the cotton is produced on time, the mill owners turn a blind eye. The children from the workhouse are treated especially poorly and Annie makes it her responsibility to rescue them. Soon she finds herself caring for three young orphans. As hard times hit the mill and hundreds of jobs are lost, will Annie be able to keep her young charges warm, fed and safe? In order to face a turbulent future, Annie needs to dig into the secrets buried in the past.