Carried down the river Irk in a flood as a baby, Jabez Clegg is pulled from the water without a name or a past. He grows up in Manchester at the turn of the nineteenth century, apprenticed to the merchant Mr. Ashton, watched over by the eccentric chaplain Joshua Brookes, and makes his way through mills, volunteer drills and the town’s upheavals toward Peterloo.
A rich regional novel that brings early industrial Manchester to life, long a favourite in Lancashire. Download the free EPUB.