Duo Pauper's Gold / Wish Me Luck Author:Margaret Dickinson Pauper's Gold: Spirited Hannah Francis' singing brightens the days of those around her in the workhouse. Even when she is separated from her mother and forced to travel to Derbyshire with three other children to work long hours in a cotton mill, Hannah is undaunted. — Life for the pauper apprentices is arduous and dangero... more »us, their daily routine harsh and demanding, but friendships are forged and an innocent love starts to blossom. But can such a fragile love survive the cruel realities? And what of Edmund Critchlow, the man who owns them all, body and soul? The man from whom no pretty mill girl is safe.
Wish Me Luck: Fleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station platform in the blackout of wartime Britain. Posted to a newly built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie was a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur was a R/T operator in their watch office.« less