The Silk Factory
English
By (author): Judith Allnatt
A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field.
Anyone whos ever lost someone is haunted
Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mothers death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, when she is already reeling from the breakup of her marriage, fills her with distrust and fearfulness. Then she starts seeing a strange child, wandering in the garden, who seems as lost as she is.
In 1812, silk master Septimus Fowler has grand plans to keep his factory in step with the industrial revolution: he will plant mulberry trees, rear silkworms and import new mechanized looms. Orphan Beulah Fiddement works as a bobbin winder and has secrets that the master would go to any lengths to get. Caught up in a dark adult world of illicit love, rebellion and revenge, Beulah must put away her childhood and draw on all her spirit to protect those she loves.
Beulahs story of guilt and bravery will echo down two centuries and change Rosies life as she struggles to overcome the hand of her own past and find redemption.
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