Resurrection

by David J. Morris

Adapted from the first two parts of the author's novel The Mill Girl, Sarah Harvey is born into a loving but poor family. At the age of fourteen, she starts work at one of the many woollen mills in the small Yorkshire town where she lives. She becomes a knowledgeable employee and, at the age of twenty-two, marries and produces a son who will become her rock after her husband dies when Paul is only four. He develops a friendship with Mark Crowther - the son of the owner of the mill where Sarah works - which will have destructive consequences for both families. After marrying William Crowther, Sarah takes over the running of the mill which goes from strength to strength, but there are many obstacles in her way before she finally achieves personal happiness.

310 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 2014

About the author

Dave Morris is a San Diego-based writer, photographer and teacher. A former Marine infantry officer, he has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Slate, Salon and the Virginia Quarterly Review since 2003. His 2006 dispatch from Iraq, titled “The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground’ was included in the Best American Nonrequired Reading series.

His writing has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” and he continues to contribute to numerous print and digital publications including The New Yorker online, The Surfer’s Journal and Foreign Policy’s “Best Defense” blog.

In 2008, he was awarded a creative nonfiction fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as residencies at The MacDowell Colony and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2009, he won the Staige D. Blackford Award for nonfiction writing from the Virginia Quarterly Review.