Novel based around a headstrong working-class girl in late 18th-century Wales. Peggin is a maid for the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a real gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth, and her brother Joe is involved the building of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Acqueduct.
"Set in 1850s Wales, London and the Crimea, Jane Evans is a novel about the real first woman on the drove, who also nursed under Florence Nightingale. Fleeing her harsh life in rural Wales, Jane ends up nursing wounded soldiers in inhuman conditions in the Crimea. Can she survive the dangers and return to Wales and what home will she find there? "--Publisher's description.