Each novel follows a different generation of the same ordinary Cumberland family as national and international events intrude upon village life. The books stand alone, while together they trace the family and its village across centuries of upheaval.
Completed Manuscript
William Birkett: The Cumberland Rebel
A tenant farmer from Cumberland is drawn into the Jacobite rising of 1745, the fighting at Clifton Moor and the consequences that carry him across the Atlantic. Publication details will be announced when confirmed.
The Wider Series
The planned sequence ranges from the Children’s Crusade to the industrial age, following successive generations of the Birkett family as distant political decisions enter ordinary village life.