Return to Moondance

Miranda Brehault''s free and happy childhood at Moondance, a crumbling old house on the edge of Dartmoor, comes to an abrupt end when she is left orphaned and penniless at the age of ten. Moondance''s new owner, Theophilus Crowe, promises to take care of her, but instead he dispatches her to a cotton mill in Derbyshire.

Conditions at Crossbank Mill are harsh and pitiless; Miranda and the other paup...