The Widows Shillings

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The final book in the Cavanah family saga. Will Kitty and her family escape the mills of Blackburn and finally reach America where a new life awaits Kitty Cavanah has been fighting for her children ever since they left Dublin in 1848. Their life in Ireland feels like a lifetime ago, and now, settled in Blackburn Kitty continues to fight for a better future for her family. With her daughter, Agnes, settled and married, Kitty must focus on her youngest children and their dream of making it across the sea to America, and a better life. She may only have a few shillings to her name, but Kitty never gives up on fighting for her a better future for her family, and working her way up in the mills of Blackburn could be the making of her fortune.

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Libby Ashworth writes sagas set in Lancashire, England where she was born and brought up. Libby still lives in Lancashire and is passionate about its history. She can trace her direct ancestors back to the village of Whalley in the Middle Ages. Many of her ancestors worked in the cotton industry - first as home-based spinners and hand loom weavers, and later in the mills of Blackburn. It is their lives Libby has drawn on to tell her stories. Libby also writes under the name Elizabeth Ashworth.