Running against the tide
By: Joanna Barnden
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781444817829; 9781444817825
Subjects: Fiction; History; Romans, nouvelles; Histoire
Description: 1800: With the new century comes a rising tide of optimism, especially in the port of London where the ambitious West India Docks are being built. This modern structure will bring increased prosperity to the shipping companies - but at what cost to the watermen who currently transport the goods to shore? On the great river the traders and the watermen work together, but away from its banks they are divided by the chasms of class and social expectation. So when Virginia Marcombe, daughter of a great shipping magnate, falls for lighterman Edward Allerdice, storms start to brew across the choppy waters of the Thames...