Showing results for "the place" in Victorian

When Cissie Brody was 15, fever swept the English countryside, killing her parents and leaving her to care for her nine younger siblings. Rejecting the offers of town officials to care for the children in the workhouse, Cissie is determined to keep the family together and moves them to a cave-like dwelling place on the Fells.

East Kent, 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores, 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a contented life at Willow Place in Canterbury. A bright future ahead of her, she dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps and becoming a teacher. Then one traumatic day turns the Cheevers’ household upside down. What was once a safe haven has become a place of peril, and Rose is forced to flee with the younger children. Desperate, she seeks refuge in a remote village with a long-lost grandmother who did not know she existed.

The year is 1792. Four strangers climb on board the Endeavor, the last ship out for the season filled with immigrating passengers, a stout crew, and cargo for their new lives. The journey promises to be one of hopeful expectation for: the new apprentice doctor, a timid but aspiring preacher, one arrogantly displaced Frenchman, and a Spanish blacksmith who has spent the majority of his life under an oppressive prejudice. A Christmas arrival in the colonies complete with everything they have been dreaming about awaits them on the other side of the ocean.