The Resource The Walworth beauty, Michèle Roberts
The Walworth beauty, Michèle Roberts
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The item The Walworth beauty, Michèle Roberts represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
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- Summary
- This is a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London. 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: 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, This is a haunting tale of desire and exploitation, isolation and loss, and the faltering search for human connection
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The Walworth beauty
- Title
- The Walworth beauty
- Statement of responsibility
- Michèle Roberts
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London. 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: 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, This is a haunting tale of desire and exploitation, isolation and loss, and the faltering search for human connection
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roberts, Michèle
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Interpersonal relations
- Man-woman relationships
- London (England)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Walworth beauty, Michèle Roberts
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1907808
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408883402
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2008383320
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The Walworth beauty, Michèle Roberts
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1907808
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Isbn
- 9781408883402
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2008383320
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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