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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. Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Daughters of the House.
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The Walworth Beauty, Michèle Roberts
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2017
- Väzba
- (pevná)
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- Titul
- The Walworth Beauty
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Michèle Roberts
- Vydavateľ
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Rok vydania
- 2017
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 400
- ISBN10
- 1408883392
- ISBN13
- 9781408883396
- Série
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Hodnotenie
- 2,85 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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. Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Daughters of the House.