A novel centred on a headstrong working-class girl in 18th-century north Wales. Peggin is a maid to the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth. Abandoned by her family, she finds her long-lost brother Joe overseeing the building of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Acqueduct.

• Prologue
• PART I
Aggie
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• PART II
Joe
• 10
• 11
• 12
• 13
• 14
• 15
• PART III
Peggin
• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21
• 22
• 23
• PART IV
Baby
• 24
• 25
• PART V
Joe
• 26
• 27
• 28
• 29
• 30
• PART VI
Peggin
• 31
• 32
• 33
• 34
• 35
• 36
• 37
• 38
• 39
• PART VII
Joe
• 40
• 41
• 42
• 43
• PART VIII
Joe
• 44
• PART IX
Peggin
• 45
• 46
• 47
• 48
• 49
• 50
• 51
• 52
• 53
• PART X
Joe
• 54
• 55
• PART XI
Peggin
• 56
• 57
• 58
• 59
• 60
• PART XII
Joe
• 61
• PART XIII
Peggin
• 62
• 63
• 64
• 65
• Acknowledgements