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Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies.

My name is Missouri Cotton, and I was born into a family of thieves. From her opening words, it's obvious Missouri Cotton is no ordinary 15-year-old. Arriving with her memorable family in Louisiana's No Man's Land, she discovers an area of great beauty, deep secrets, and expansive isolation. The Cotton family wanders into an ongoing local feud between encroaching outsiders and the local Ten Milers Redbones, a mixed Indian group.