About This Book
The romance and mystery of the rail ignites Irish immigrant Sorcha O'Shea's personal romance in 'The Race to Rainhill. Sorcha O'Shea is a poor but skilled factory artisan with an unusual talent who is present at an event which changes the course of history: the race contest for the rights to build the first passenger steam locomotive in the world. While Sorcha is at the Rainhill Trials watching history unfold, she meets Robert Stephenson, the engineer who built the entry Rocket. She also encounters Thaddeus Fulbright, a newspaper reporter who annoyingly turns up at every corner. Lawrence Davenport, Sorcha's employer, has less than honorable designs on Sorcha, whose family depends on her income. Lawrence holds Sorcha's family's survival over her head. Still living in an historical period containing all the elements of a Regency romance, The Race to Rainhill has carriages, horses, ball gowns, theatre, assemblies, class hierarchy and aristocrats while on the cusp of the next phase of British life: the rail, which transformed travel, work, leisure, and even home life. Experience the romance of the rail as history unfolds and Sorcha finds true love. Late Georgian Traditional Romance in the vein of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, movie starring Judi Dench.
