The Periwinkle Wreath

Following on from the events in the award-winning novel Beyond the Fells, The Periwinkle Wreath tells the story of self-educated Louisa whose life is thrown into turmoil when she finds herself pregnant and alone on a remote track in Westmorland in the early 19th century. A chance meeting with a Good Samaritan enables her to escape her isolated community and head for London where her daughter is admitted to the care of the Foundling Hospital.

Struggling with the gender and class wars of the p...