Night Flower

Two girls are brought together under the worst of circumstances: a prison ship taking them from London to ''parts beyond the sea''. Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in the hills of the North-West to the city to eke a living playing her tin-whistle in a place where her people are despised. When her mother dies - from cholera, the ''gypsy disease'' - she''s caught breaking-and-entering and...