The Gilded Lily

Winter 1661. In her short life Sadie Appleby has never left rural Westmorland. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister Ella. She has robbed her employer and is on the run. Together the girls flee their home and head for London. But London may not be the promised land she expects. Work is hard to find until Ella takes up with a dashing and dubious gentleman with ties to the London underworld. Meanwhile her old employers twin brother is in hot pursuit of the sisters. Set in a London of atmospheric coffee houses gilded mansions and shady pawnshops hidden from rich mens view Deborah Swifts The Gilded Lily is a dazzling novel of historical adventure.