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A review by booknerdjo
Winchelsea by Alex Preston
4.0
I didn't really know much about this book before I read it - it is about smugglers in the mid 18th century in the Romney Marsh area of South East England.
The main character is Goody whose father works with a smuggling gang. When he is brutally murdered by the gang, she and her adopted brother Francis join a rival gang and vow revenge.
Goody and Francis get drawn into a crazy world of politics, danger, decadence and passion. They face the constant danger of the King's men, as well as the risks of crossing the English Channel.
And Goody finds herself in a man's world, but a world where she is no longer confined by the expectations of what it is to be a lady. She finds a freedom and lack of constraint, dressed as a boy she reinvents herself in a way that few women of the time were able to.
I thought this was a great read. The brutality of the smugglers' lives and the harshness of the landscape in which they live and work combine to make a truly atmospheric and gripping novel.
The main character is Goody whose father works with a smuggling gang. When he is brutally murdered by the gang, she and her adopted brother Francis join a rival gang and vow revenge.
Goody and Francis get drawn into a crazy world of politics, danger, decadence and passion. They face the constant danger of the King's men, as well as the risks of crossing the English Channel.
And Goody finds herself in a man's world, but a world where she is no longer confined by the expectations of what it is to be a lady. She finds a freedom and lack of constraint, dressed as a boy she reinvents herself in a way that few women of the time were able to.
I thought this was a great read. The brutality of the smugglers' lives and the harshness of the landscape in which they live and work combine to make a truly atmospheric and gripping novel.