Dark Satanic Mill

Cheshire 1813. A tale set against the turbulent backdrop of Luddite riots and the final years of the Napoleonic Wars. Robbie Enright is a teenage orphan indentured at a remote cotton-spinning mill called Providence, owned by the eminent Samuel Stead. In this highly-successful enterprise reliant on child labour all is not as it seems, however. Several of the female hands have disappeared, supposedly escaping from the mill's harsh discipline. Robbie, suspecting a terrible secret, is forced to contend with the mill's authorities, not least Titus Bredlow, the sadistic overlooker. Bright and courageous, Robbie has no resources and only one friend: Ned Wainwright, a notorious Luddite and a wanted man. Against the odds he is determined to expose the truth - not least because he's fallen in love with the mill's newest arrival - pretty Mary Pepper.

Autorentext

Miles Craven jest moim pseudonimem, po czeniem imienia, z którym si urodzi em (Michael Craven) i imienia, które zast pi o go (Michael Miles), kiedy moja matka ponownie wysz a za m . Mieszkaj cy w Pó nocnej Walii Yorkshireman, jestem autorem pi ciu poprzednich powie ci: Mroczny szatäski m yn, Orze i damski zabójca, etc.