From Waterloo to Water Street
by S E MorganPublish: Feb 11, 2022Series: Carmarthen ChroniclesHistorical FictionBook Overview
‘You felt you knew the family, I was captivated by their lives and could not put the book down.’ Amazon Reviewer.A grandfather riddled by guilt, a son-in-law risking everything in fighting for justice and two grandsons in a bitter rivalry. Families don't change, not even in Victorian Wales.
The first book in the sweeping Victorian Carmarthen Chronicles series.
West Wales 1843: The daughters of Rebecca are marching, breaking down toll gates that circle Carmarthen. Livelihoods are destroyed by unfair tithes and taxes and the workhouse provides a starvation diet for the “deserving poor”. The people’s fight for fair-handed justice has begun, but protestors risk transportation or execution by a government scared Britain might follow France into revolution.
Carpenter’s apprentice, clever but cautious Will, grapples with resentment that he will not inherit the family farm. Will’s jealousy increases when his handsome, radical older brother falls in love with his best friend, Ellen.
Cantankerous veteran, Thomas Lewis, is tormented by nightmares of the wars against the French in Spain and the Low Countries nearly thirty years earlier. Could telling Will the heartbreaking story of his campaigns and battles with the 44th East Essex Regiment help Thomas find peace?
What will become of Will and his family in such turbulent times?
