AUTHOR DELL BRAND
Wylde Oates
About the Book
When Tom Wylde lands a job at the New Lanark Cotton Mill he is fourteen and has his life planned out. His sweetheart, Bella Oates, joins him there two years later and all is on track for their marriage.
However their plans are shattered when Tom’s temper gets the better of him. Convicted of a serious crime, he is sentenced to transportation to New South Wales. Tom urges Bella to forget him and make a new life for herself in Scotland.
On reaching the colony, Tom is taken on by Simeon Lord to work in his textile factory at Botany and he meets Jane. Having not heard from Bella since leaving Scotland, he assumes she heeded his advice and remained behind. He decides to pursue Jane and they fall in love and marry but soon after a letter from Bella arrives telling him she is on her way. Married to one and betrothed to another, Tom’s life is once again catapulted into turmoil.
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