{"product_id":"9780007523009_the-silk-factory","title":"The Silk Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who’s ever lost someone is haunted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, when she is already reeling from the breakup of her marriage, fills her with distrust and fearfulness. Then she starts seeing a strange child, wandering in the garden, who seems as lost as she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1812, silk master Septimus Fowler has grand plans to keep his factory in step with the industrial revolution: he will plant mulberry trees, rear silkworms and import new mechanized looms. Orphan Beulah Fiddement works as a bobbin winder and has secrets that the master would go to any lengths to get. Caught up in a dark adult world of illicit love, rebellion and revenge, Beulah must put away her childhood and draw on all her spirit to protect those she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeulah’s story of guilt and bravery will echo down two centuries and change Rosie’s life as she struggles to overcome the hand of her own past and find redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judith Allnatt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284865728661,"sku":"9780007523009","price":8.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007523009.jpg?v=1776992257","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007523009_the-silk-factory","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}