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After twenty years serving the British Army overseas, Sergeant Joshua Kerry wishes to settle to a life in India. Fate conspires against him.
Ordered back to England, he arrives in Nottingham, the town of his birth, on a day when a market place rally of framework knitters turns into a riot. It is the start of what comes to be known as the Luddite rebellion.
His family are framework knitters - his duty is to uphold the law. Torn between loyalty to family and the crown in a spiralling conflict, he fears he may never return to a wife and child in India.
Centred in Madras and Nottingham at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, 'What Buys a King's Shilling?' is the story of an honest soldier striving to hold firm to his values in a world of deceit, injustice and social turmoil.
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