Jess Carter and the Oil Boat

In Geoffrey Lewis' first story intended for younger readers, Jess Carter & the Oil Boat takes us from the industrial gloom of the Black Country to the wide expanse of the Manchester Ship Canal, via the pastoral landscapes of Shropshire and Cheshire, on board a horse-drawn tanker boat of Thomas Clayton (Oldbury) Ltd. The family on board, Annie Kain, a widowed boatwoman and her three children, pick...