The Walworth Beauty [electronic resource]
Michèle Roberts2017
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From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring
the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue
and Kate Atkinson
2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her
riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away, and
move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she
senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen
life.
1851: and Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his
articles on the working classes. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph is
tasked with coaxing testimony from prostitutes. Roaming the Southwark streets,
he is tempted by brothels' promises of pleasure – and as he struggles with his
assignment, he seeks answers in Apricot Place, where the enigmatic Mrs Dulcimer
runs a boarding house.
As these entwined stories unfold, alive with the sensations of London pas...
Main title:
The Walworth Beauty [electronic resource] / Michèle Roberts
Author:
Michèle Roberts, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (400 pages)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781408883419
Language:
English
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BRN:
452756
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