A World Away

This narrative invites adult readers to reimagine themselves as an 11-year-old child in 19th-century County Somerset, England. You have a younger brother both sons of a once-proud apple cider artisan who left for London one morning, never to return. His last words to you: While away, take care of your brother and help Mother, son. Already in ill health, your mother dies within the year. Now orphans, your only means of survival is stealing food and clothing from villagers. After being caught...