The Cotton Mill Girl

The mill was set to break Lottie.

Heston mill had already broken so many young lives, robbed innocents of digits and limbs, snuffed out the light behind so many eyes, all without a glimmer of remorse. Such was life for thousands in Victorian England. Why should Lottie be any different?

But the mill was Lottie’s World; she knew nothing else. Lottie soon learned that horrors were hiding everywhere at the mill. Heartbreak, tragedy and pain shadowed her at every turn.

She knew that she must be strong and that she must speak out at injustice as her mother had done. She bravely became an anonymous voice for the harshly treated workers and a mother figure for the younger orphans.

As she grew into a beautiful young woman, Lottie learnt that not all of the dangers lurking in the mill were mechanical.

Soon she was faced with the most ruthless danger of all, and she had no idea what she should do.