She Writes Press Inc | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Between 1870 and 1900, twelve million people immigrated to America.
Hundreds of thousands of them came to work in the textile mills of Fall
River, Massachusetts.






The Mill of Lost Dreams is a story of love, friendship and
sacrifice that provides an inside view into the world of textile mills
and the daily life of seven courageous souls who leave home and risk
everything for their shared dream of a better life: Angelina and Guido
Wallabee, who have left their family’s failed farm in Italy;
eleven-year-old Miranda Alysworth and her fifteen-year-old brother,
Francois, who have escaped from indentured service in Canada; twins
Phoebe and Charlie Dougherty, the children of Irish immigrant parents,
who, though not yet thirteen, are forced to work in Troy Mill to support
their family after their father’s untimely death; and eleven-year-old,
Anne Kenny, an orphan who’s never known where she came from. All but one
take jobs in Troy Mill in Fall River.





Over the course of seven decades, there are marriages, births, secrets
exposed, friendships tested, and innocence lost. Some succeed in making a
new life away from harm but pay a terrible price. Many cannot build the
life they dreamed of and the consequences impact and shape the lives of
their children—and their children’s children.