5/20/2023 0 Comments She Rises by Kate Worsley![]() The world he enters is dangerous and Luke has to adapt quickly if he is to survive. He is beaten and press ganged by His Majesty’s Navy into going to sea on the warship Essex. In the second of the two narratives, fifteen year old Luke finds himself drinking in a Harwich local tavern at the wrong time. ![]() Louise finds life in Harwich both dangerous and exciting and is soon under the spell of her young mistress, but then smallpox strikes and Louise has to put her own life at risk to save Rebecca. Before Louise leaves the farm, her mother requests that she find out what has happened to her brother, Luke, thus giving the story its driving force. Us Fletchers have too much salt in our blood’. ![]() The sea has played its part in her life already, luring both her father and brother away never to return: ‘the sea was where our troubles flowed from. It’s 1740 and a young dairy maid Louise Fletcher is offered work as a lady’s maid to Rebecca, the spoilt daughter of a sea captain, in the glamorous port of Harwich. ![]()
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