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Author Roberts, Michèle, author.

Title The Walworth beauty / Michèle Roberts.

Publication Info. London, UK : Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  ROBERTS    Check Shelf
Description 389 pages ; 23 cm
Summary 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: 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 past and present, the two eras brush against each other.
Subject Walworth (London, England) -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
England -- London -- Walworth. (OCoLC)fst01329831
London (England) -- Fiction.
Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
Chronological Term 1800-1950
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781408883396 (hardback)
1408883392 (hardback)
9781408883402 (trade paperback)
1408883406 (trade paperback)
9781408883419 (EPUB)
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