Publisher's Synopsis
This is a biography of a Yorkshire family in the early 19th century, struggling in the debates and turmoil of the period. It's a bottom-up history, not top-down, showing how family life determines responses to financial hardship, political unrest and religious discrimination. The pressures of everyday living led an entire family of three generations to migrate across the oceans in 1840 to start a new life in Australia.
This is a book that speaks to the distinctiveness of this era but also the universal themes of family, love and change.
