Isabella Hawkins is a girl ahead of her time. She reads and writes in several languages and is encouraged by her father to challenge the 'establishment'. But questioning the Church or Government is a dangerous business. When her father is put to death for publishing a controversial pamphlet on freedom, Isabella escapes from England and seeks refuge, first in Amsterdam and then Venice. Is anywhere safe for a sixteen year old girl, an apprentice printer, who is more educated than most boys?
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