The Moses Child

by Audrey Reimann

Oliver Wainwright was sixteen when he first set eyes on the fair, delicate Florence, the aristocratic granddaughter of Sir Philip Oldfield. That same day he ran away, determined never to be a servant or follow in his father’s footsteps as a quarry worker on the Oldfield estate.In Middlefield he slowly but surely sets about becoming a man of property and a cotton king. He works single-mindedly to achieve his ambition until he meets Rosie, a married mill hand who distracts him with her dark, warm beauty.Set against a background of the Lancashire/Cheshire cotton industry, The Moses Child is a magnificent saga of a young man’s rise to power, his passion and poverty, feuds and triumphs and the two very different women who shape his life.

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990