The Factory Girl's Promise
(2026)(The first book in the Forgotten Orphans of London series)
A novel by Sybil Cook
Manchester, 1862. When Daisy Turner's father is crushed by a faulty loom at Hartley Mill, the owner offers her an impossible bargain: work two shifts at his price, or watch her young brother and sister be sent to the workhouse.
Daisy chooses the looms. But the Cotton Famine is biting hard, the wages are shrinking, and her body is breaking down. With her best friend Nell binding her ribs in linen and dressing her in a dead boy's trousers, Daisy walks into a different mill across town as Daniel Turner, sixteen, looking for honest work.
Daniel earns more in a week than Daisy does in a fortnight. Daniel can walk home alone after dark. Daniel can stand straight when a foreman raises a cane.
Daniel can also catch the eye of William Hartley, the quiet, principled son of the very man who killed her father.
When the lie begins to unravel, and a fire tears through Hartley Mill with the workers locked inside, Daisy will have to choose what she loses last: her name, her family, or the man who has come to know her better than anyone alive.
A sweeping, devastating saga of cotton, class, and courage in industrial Manchester.
Genre: Historical Romance
Daisy chooses the looms. But the Cotton Famine is biting hard, the wages are shrinking, and her body is breaking down. With her best friend Nell binding her ribs in linen and dressing her in a dead boy's trousers, Daisy walks into a different mill across town as Daniel Turner, sixteen, looking for honest work.
Daniel earns more in a week than Daisy does in a fortnight. Daniel can walk home alone after dark. Daniel can stand straight when a foreman raises a cane.
Daniel can also catch the eye of William Hartley, the quiet, principled son of the very man who killed her father.
When the lie begins to unravel, and a fire tears through Hartley Mill with the workers locked inside, Daisy will have to choose what she loses last: her name, her family, or the man who has come to know her better than anyone alive.
A sweeping, devastating saga of cotton, class, and courage in industrial Manchester.
Genre: Historical Romance
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