The Hammer and The Loom

von Michele Shaughnessy

678 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when the world begins to change faster than ordinary people can keep up?In eighteenth-century Yorkshire, two boys grow up in very different worlds, yet both are bound to the same forces transforming Britain.Thomas Barlow is born into rural life, but his future leads him from the fields to the fire and steel of Sheffield, where he learns the demanding craft of the cutler. Jeremiah Ramsden grows up among sheep, spinning wheels and the steady rhythm of the family loom. As new machines, expanding trade and changing markets reshape the wool industry, he must decide whether to preserve the life he knows or find his place in a rapidly changing world.From village cottages and crowded markets to forge fires, weaving rooms and the smoke of growing industrial towns, The Hammer and the Loom follows the intertwined lives of families whose work, friendships, marriages and hopes are tested by progress.Across decades marked by enclosure, hardship, technological change and social unrest, Thomas and Jeremiah discover that the future is not shaped only by kings, merchants and inventors. It is also forged and woven by ordinary people.Rich in the everyday details of eighteenth-century Yorkshire, this sweeping historical novel brings to life the farmers, weavers, mechanics, cutlers, wives and families who lived through the earliest transformations of the Industrial Revolution.The Hammer and the Loom is a story of family, friendship, resilience, craft and change, and of the enduring question of how to hold on to what matters while the world around you is being remade.

• Themen: Belletristik Historischer Roman
• ISBN: 9781865210476
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Queensland Book Publishers