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Author Worsley, Kate, author.

Title She rises : a novel / Kate Worsley.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F WORSLEY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-WOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F WORSLEY, K.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC WORSLEY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F WORSLEY KATE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-WORSLEY    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 421 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as a lady's maid to a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty young mistress, who is unlike anyone Louise has encountered before: as unexpected as she is fascinating. Intertwined with her story is fifteen-year-old Luke's: He is drinking in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by Her Majesty's Navy. Unable to escape, Luke is beaten and press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. He must learn fast and choose his friends well if he is to survive the brutal hardships of a sailor's life and its many dangers, both up high in the rigging and in the dark below decks. Louise navigates her new life among the streets and crooked alleys of Harwich, where groaning houses riddled with smugglers' tunnels are flooded by the spring tides, and love burns brightly in the shadows. Luke, aching for the girl he left behind and determined to one day find his way back to her, embarks on a long and perilous journey across the ocean. The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing and irrevocable. A breathtakingly accomplished love story and a gripping search for identity and survival, She Rises is a bold, brilliant, and utterly original novel"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Lady's maids -- Fiction.
Sailors -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760 -- Fiction.
Harwich (England) -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781620400975 hardback
1620400979 hardback
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