London Sand

By Hannah Spedding

Oh, you're a thief now Billy. Cold air hits his head, and reality takes over. He quickens his pace to a run. Into the London dusk, the shadows, the ambiguity. Everything changed.A story of love, betrayal, invasion and injustice. A story of those who leave, and of those who are left behind. This is the first of a trilogy of dark, historical fiction set in the poverty and affluence of Georgian London, and in the chaotic origins and breath-taking backdrop of newly colonised Australia. The arrival of the First Fleet to the shores of the Warrane, the colony of Sydney Cove, brought hundreds of British convicts to an ancient, sacred landscape which was already inhabited. To a land nurtured for thousands of years by its indigenous peoples. These English ships kept coming. Bringing an end to this long peace, this enduring relationship, this quiet respect, risking its destruction forever. Those people of the clouds, the uninvited guests, and their sudden, then continued arrivals.The year is 1790. Billy Cantoe, a young, working-class man from Hackney, and thanks to a fateful meeting one late summer's day, is husband to Grace, from well-to-do Camberwell. Together in their own special bliss for two years, despite their different backgrounds and Grace's mother's loud disapproval, they are now blessed with a baby, Owen. Billy is an orphan, an only child, a loner, and his little family is the light of his life; a happiness he didn't think would ever be his, a happiness he'll do anything to protect.But money is tight, and in a few weeks' time he'll be out of a job. This drives him to make the smallest, most terrible mistake...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B085K5VTYR
• ISBN13: 9798617631281
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"