William: A Cumberland Rebel

First Edition. A historical novel of Cumberland, the 1745 Jacobite rising and the human cost of choosing sides.

William Birkett is a young Cumbrian labourer whose ordinary life is overtaken by rebellion. As the rising moves through the county, William is drawn into events that carry him from Caldbeck through defeat, trial and transportation, while Catherine must endure the uncertainty and judgement left behind.

The first novel in The Cumberland Chronicles, a sequence following generations of the Birkett family as national and international events intrude upon ordinary Cumbrian lives.

Author: Ian P. Loftus
Publisher: Stonecurrent Press
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-911972-01-3