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.
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London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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England -- London -- Walworth.
(OCoLC)fst01329831
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1950
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Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Domestic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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ISBN |
9781408883396 (hardback) |
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1408883392 (hardback) |
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9781408883402 (trade paperback) |
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1408883406 (trade paperback) |
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9781408883419 (EPUB) |
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