Young Joan Wright knows exactly what she wants: to escape with her friend Marcie from domestic drudgery in her poor village of Lancashire cotton workers, and to make a living using their healing skills. They have sworn to have nothing to do with men. But when roving, rascally, magnetic Sean McGilroy comes on a visit to his relatives, Joan finds herself attracted to him despite her plans and his bad reputation as a 'light o' love'. Appalled by the poverty all about, McGilroy joins Joan's father … [Read more...] about The Peterloo Affair by Lucinda Elliot