Michèle Roberts

The Walworth Beauty

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Produktbeschreibung

From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson2011: 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: and 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 - a breath at Madeleine's neck, a voice in her head - the murmurs of ghosts echoing through time. Rendered in immediate, intoxicating prose, The Walworth Beauty is a haunting tale of desire and exploitation, isolation and loss, and the faltering search for human connection; this is Michèle Roberts at her masterful best.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing / Bloomsbury Trade
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781408883426
• ISBN-10: 1408883422
• Artikelnr.: 49255667

Autorenporträt

Michèle Roberts

Rezensionen

A magnificent writer Helen Dunmore Guardian