Charlotte Hutchison was born into utter poverty on ‘the wrong side of the river’ back at the turn of the last century. Her mother had died while giving birth to her and left her to be brought up by a horde of rough alcoholic brothers, and an equally rough and alcoholic father. The only way of getting to school was by using the boat her father and brothers hired out to take townsfolk across the river and into Town, although they held Charlotte in so much scorn that they often didn’t bother to pick her up in the evening and she’d have to bed down at a kind Samaritans house ready to go back to ...
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