Series: The River Maid

The first in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court. London, 1854: Twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty-stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father’s beck and call. Then, one night, she must transport a...