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The Walworth beauty

Roberts, Michلele, author

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Subject: 1800-1950 / Women England London Social conditions 19th century Fiction. / Women England London Social conditions 21st century Fiction. / Walworth (London, England) Fiction. / London (England) History 1800-1950 Fiction. / England London. / England London Walworth.
• ISBN: 9781408883396, 1408883392, 9781408883402, 1408883406

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6068.O155 W35 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL