Why a Booktrail?
1860s: First book in the Windfell saga
The Mistress of Windfell Manor (1)
Why a Booktrail?
1860s: First book in the Windfell saga
What you need to know before your trail
Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share, which is set high up in the limestone escarpments of Crummockdale. But when a new businessman in the form of Joseph Dawson enters their lives, both Charlotte and her father decide he’s the man for her and, within six months, Charlotte marries the dashing mill owner from Accrington.
Then a young mill worker is found dead in the swollen River Ribble. With Joseph’s business nearly bankrupt, it becomes apparent that all is not as it seems and Joseph is not the man he pretends to be. Heavily pregnant, penniless and heartbroken, Charlotte is forced to face the reality that life may never be the same again . .
Travel Guide
The Yorkshire Dales
A novel set in the heart of the Yorkshire dales, the farming community and the cotton mills
A weaver’s lament opens the book:
“Come on you cotton weavers, your looms you must pull down
You must be employed in factories , in country or in town
For our cotton masters have found out a wonderful new scheme, These calico goods now wove by hand they’re going to weave by steam”
Crummock Farm is fictional but it has views of the small hamlet of Eldorth
“There wasn’t a better view in all Yorkshire”
“Not a finer sight tha’ll find, Mary, than looking out of this window on an early spring morning. God’s own country, that’s what we are in lass. Mark my words, God’s own country.”
Streetview Maps
A) Yorkshire - Eldroth
B) Yorkshire - Ribblesdale
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Mistress of Windfell Manor (1)
Destination: Yorkshire Dales, Settle, Skipton, Ribbleswick Author/Guide: Dianne Allen Departure Time: 1860s
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