The Walworth Beauty
London, UK : Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: 389 pages ; 23 cm
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.
Subjects:
Walworth (London, England) -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
Walworth (London, England) -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781408883396
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Roberts | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |