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.
