AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 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. Then when Goody turns
sixteen her father is murdered in the night by men he thought were friends. To find justice in
a lawless land Goody must enter the cut-throat world of her father's killers. With her beloved
brother Francis she joins a rival gang of smugglers. Facing high seas and desperate villains
she also discovers something else: an existence without constraints or expectations a taste
for danger that makes her blood run fast. Goody was never born to be a gentlewoman. But what
will she become instead? Winchelsea is an electrifying story of vengeance and transformation a
rare lyrical and transporting work of historical imagination that makes the past so real we
can touch it.
