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The Walworth beauty  Cover Image Book Book

The Walworth beauty / Michèle Roberts.

Roberts, Michèle, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781408883396 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 389 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Subject: Walworth (London, England) > Fiction.
London (England) > History > 1800-1950 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch FIC Rober 31681010078400 FICTION Available -


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