Mrs. Flannagan's Trumpet — Catherine Cookson

While staying with his grandparents on the eastern coast of England in 1890, 16-year-old Eddie finds himself allied with his rather prickly and reputedly deaf grandmother in the struggle to free his sister and the household maid from a band of white slavers.Although Eddie is reluctant about staying with his grandmother while his mother recuperates from an illness, he allies himself with her when white slavers kidnap his sister and a housemaid in 1890