The River Maid (The River Maid, Book 1)

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The dazzling new novel from Sunday Instances bestseller, Dilly Courtroom

London, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives together with her father in poverty afflicted Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life looks set earlier than her, never to go away this a part of London and continually at her father’s beck and make contact with.

Then, one evening, she ought to transport a mysterious man from a international ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who finally ends up renting a room in Essie’s condo, identifying himself handiest as ‘Raven’.

When curiosity receives the greater of her, Essie follows him and unwittingly turns into worried in anything far superior than she may ever have guessed. Finding herself on a ship certain for the penal colonies in Australia with Raven and his cousin Alice, this is just the beginning of a remarkable adventure taking her to the other aspect of the realm and back once again…