The daring ladies of lowel

The novel is historical fiction set in the 1830s during America's industrial revolution in Lowell, Massachusetts. It follows young women, known as the "mill girls," who leave their family farms to work in textile mills. The story focuses on Alice Barrow, who moves to Lowell and finds the working conditions harsh. She befriends a strong-willed girl named Lovey Cornell, and the narrative explores their lives, friendship, and a relationship with the mill owner's son, all complicated by the actual historical event of a mill girl's murder and the subsequent trial in 1833.