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‘Mary Hindle’ is a compelling historical novel telling the story of a young woman who finds herself caught up in the East Lancashire Weavers Uprising of 1826. Sympathetic to the plight of families suffering from unemployment and starvation, she meets fiery rebel captain Thomas Emmett and pledges herself to take part in an attack on William Turner’s factory aimed at destroying all of his 106 power looms. Taken prisoner and later separated from her husband George and beloved daughter Elizabeth, the price she goes on paying for the event she took part in on 24 April will haunt her for the rest of her life until the day she dies in Australia.