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The Walworth beauty / Michèle Roberts.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781408883396 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 389 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2017.
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| Subject: | Walworth (London, England) > Fiction. London (England) > History > 1800-1950 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Rober | 31681010078400 | FICTION | Available | - |
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