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A novel of passion, drama and disaster in 19th century England. Robert Dyce, the illegitimate son of the local squire, travels home to the Pennine hills from America, a rich man with high hopes to rekindle a romance from the past, but his dreams are dashed in a cruel twist of fate.
Dyce invests in his home valley in an attempt to improve the lot of the ordinary working men and women who struggle to survive in the harsh regime of the textile mills, but is opposed at every turn by his malicious step-brother who inherited everything.
He forms a close friendship, that blossoms into love, with Singing Jenny, the music hall star of the bustling textile town of Bradfield, and an unlikely alliance with Cosmo Pinkerton, the lesser known brother of the founder of the famous detective agency, as his recent past in America comes back to threaten him.
But threatening everybody is the reservoir high in the hills. The river that runs from it is the valley's lifeblood. It supplies the power to the mills that line its banks. But the reservoir is unsafe. If the dam is ever breached, disaster would sweep the villages and hamlets below. And then February rains come like never before ... Lives will be lost, others irrevocably changed and secrets revealed in a terrible deluge.
The author is an award winning author who has been published in the UK, America and in eight languages. This 80,000 word novel is fiction but based on real events that happened during the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 when more than 80 men, women and children were swept to their deaths.
Dyce invests in his home valley in an attempt to improve the lot of the ordinary working men and women who struggle to survive in the harsh regime of the textile mills, but is opposed at every turn by his malicious step-brother who inherited everything.
He forms a close friendship, that blossoms into love, with Singing Jenny, the music hall star of the bustling textile town of Bradfield, and an unlikely alliance with Cosmo Pinkerton, the lesser known brother of the founder of the famous detective agency, as his recent past in America comes back to threaten him.
But threatening everybody is the reservoir high in the hills. The river that runs from it is the valley's lifeblood. It supplies the power to the mills that line its banks. But the reservoir is unsafe. If the dam is ever breached, disaster would sweep the villages and hamlets below. And then February rains come like never before ... Lives will be lost, others irrevocably changed and secrets revealed in a terrible deluge.
The author is an award winning author who has been published in the UK, America and in eight languages. This 80,000 word novel is fiction but based on real events that happened during the Holmfirth Flood of 1852 when more than 80 men, women and children were swept to their deaths.
