Gilded Lily, The

Synopsis

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 hoping to lose themselves in the teeming city. But the dead man's relatives are in pursuit, and soon a game of cat and mouse ensues amongst the freezing warren that is London in winter.