Apprenticed at fourteen to a Liverpool cotton firm as a ‘pair of legs’, the narrator leaves an unhappy London home and his stepmother behind. His life changes when he befriends Rayel, a shy and remarkable boy who can read thoughts without a word spoken, and whose gift soon brings unwelcome publicity and danger.
An early novel by the author of Eben Holden, mixing Victorian romance with a fascination for telepathy. Download the free EPUB.