My Story: Mill Girl

Say hello to yesterday without a Tardis. A bewitching new look for My Story: the series where history gets real. Over a million copies sold. No imitation will do. Manchester, 1842. Something terrible has happened. Eliza can scarcely bring herself to write the words. She is to start at the mill on Monday. Eliza has heard dreadful things about the huge textile mills sweeping across Britain, turning it into an industrial nation. People say the work is tough and the conditions atrocious. Now Eliza must find out for herself. Will she still be Eliza – or just a pair of factory hands?

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