Molly and the Spatterdasher: An Immigration Odyssey and Disaster at Sea A Novel Inspired by Family Lore

A Novel Based on Family Lore

Set in the mid-1800s, A Gripping Tale of Desperation, Disaster, and Determination

It's 1844 in Swansea, a grimy industrial town in South Wales dominated by copper smelters. John Gibson, destitute and desperate, has just turned eighteen and he's drunk, at the mercy of a recruiter who signs him to a twenty-year stint in the British Army. Sober, hungover, and frightened, he runs away, across the Bristol Channel to Tiverton, in Devonshire, England, where he changes hi...