Pennine Vintage - Kay Stephens

For generations the Bright family’s cloth-making business has prospered in the Pennine Village of Heptonstall. However, William and Henry, next in line to take over, know that at a time when only the Luddites stand in the way of the new machinery, the future looks uncertain. But it is still a bitter shock when both brothers resolve to desert the business for the more exotic port and sherry trade, leaving their despairing father to struggle on against the odds.

Isobel Bright, his youngest daughter, is determined that her brother’s defection shouldn’t simply spell disaster. but, battling to help the business through troubled times, she finds herself becoming more and more compromised by her sympathy for the Luddite machine-breakers and, as she grows to know one of their number better, increasingly torn by conflicting ties of loyalty and love…