Book description
Johnnie Easter takes his family by surprise when he falls in love with
Harriet Sowervy. For all his business talent Johnnie is a shy lad,
awkward at social events. But when he meets gentle Harriet, beaten into
submission by her brutal parents, Johnnie reveals hidden strengths,
rescuing his love from her prison-like life and making her his bride.
Harriet's love for her rescuer, her hero, her husband, knows no bounds.
Surely theirs is a marriage made in heaven? But as Johnnie devotes more
and more time to the family business, rushing newspapers across the
country on the swift new 'Fourpenny Flyers', Harriet suffers from his
neglect. Until, amid the terrible massacre at Peterloo, where her eyes
are opened to the suffering and deprivation of the poor around her, she
meets dynamic revolutionary Caleb Rawson, who is everything Johnnie is
not - passionate, exciting, and champion of the poor. And so the seeds
of tragedy are sown... Johnnie Easter takes his family by surprise
when he falls in love with Harriet Sowervy. For all his business talent
Johnnie is a shy lad, awkward at social events. But when he meets gentle
Harriet, beaten into submission by her brutal parents, Johnnie reveals
hidden strengths, rescuing his love from her prison-like life and making
her his bride. Harriet's love for her rescuer, her hero, her husband,
knows no bounds. Surely theirs is a marriage made in heaven? But as
Johnnie devotes more and more time to the family business, rushing
newspapers across the country on the swift new 'Fourpenny Flyers',
Harriet suffers from his neglect. Until, amid the terrible massacre at
Peterloo, where her eyes are opened to the suffering and deprivation of
the poor around her, she meets dynamic revolutionary Caleb Rawson, who
is everything Johnnie is not - passionate, exciting, and champion of the
poor. And so the seeds of tragedy are sown...
