Winchelsea av Alex Preston

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<p><b>AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4</b><br><b>A <i>SPECTATOR</i> BEST OF THE YEAR - AS CHOSEN BY REVIEWERS</b><br><br>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. <br><br> 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.<br><br> Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what will she become instead?</p>