OF INTEREST TO YOUNG READERS
Meg Moore is happy as the daughter of a widowed bookseller, but her father's remarriage challenges her ideas about her future. Set in 17th century London.
Meg is now 16, and her father wants her to put down her pen and think about marriage. But when her best friend's brother is taken captive by Mediterranean pirates and a ransom must be raised, she finds a way to change her father's mind.
Kit leaves his "simple" brother Christy in poverty in Essex and goes to London to make his fortune. It's 1684, the coldest winter England has known, and the Frost Fair on the ice keeps Kit from worrying about what he's left behind till circumstances force him to face reality.
