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Pauper's Gold

By: Margaret Dickinson
Narrated by: Anne Dover
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Margaret Dickinson's Pauper's Gold is the heartfelt story of triumph over adversity, in the cotton mills of Derbyshire.

Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales. It is a cruel blow for such a young girl, but her three travelling companions are even younger than she is, and Hannah is determined to keep their spirits up and remain in good cheer.

Once she is settled in the mill, Hannah discovers that the hours of work are long, and the daily routine is dangerous, arduous and harsh, but her bright singing and capacity for joy lighten the load for everyone.

Hannah soon becomes a favourite with the other mill workers. Friendships are forged and an innocent love starts to blossom. But can such a fragile love survive cruel reality? It is not long before she attracts the eye of Edmund Critchlow, the man who owns them all, body and soul – the man from whom no pretty mill girl is safe.

Times are hard in the cotton industry as civil war rages across America affecting even the mill owner and the lives of all his workers . . .

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A great tale woven with many interesting characters around the life of a young woman. She experiences great hardship but comes through it all in the end as all good takes do.

A great tale of life around Derbyshire Mills

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Excellent book, with a story which will touch your heart. Hannah had to go in the workhouse with her Mother, it wasn't long before she was sent to work at a mill, with a very cruel man in charge. You hear how Hannah coped with the highs & lows of life there, running away when it just got too bad, but she would return years later to get her revenge

Paupers Gold

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Excellent story, very well narrated and thoroughly enjoyable! I couldn’t put it down it was so good…..

Pauper’s Gold

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slow to start with, but it does pick up and gets better as it goes on, I would recommend this book.

Very good

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What a great read!! The best I have had in a long time. Paints a great picture and the characters are so well pressed

Fab!

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