The Low Road
Autor Katharine Quarmbyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iun 2023
- For fans of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue and The Foundling by Stacey Halls.
- Based on historical records, the author novelized the story of these two women who had a marriage of sorts—two centuries before this was legally possible.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1800182392
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 224 x 143 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Unbound
Notă biografică
Katharine Quarmby has written non-fiction, short stories and books for children. This is her first novel. She has worked as a senior editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Liberty Investigates and Disability Now, and as an associate editor for Newsweek and Prospect magazine. Katharine lives in London.
Descriere
Norfolk, 1813. In the quiet Waveney Valley, the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell – is staked through the heart after her death by suicide. She had been under arrest for the suspected murder of her newborn child. Mary leaves behind a young daughter, Hannah, who is later sent away to the Refuge for the Destitute in London, where she will be trained for a life of domestic service.
It is at the Refuge that Hannah meets Annie Simpkins, a fellow resident, and together they forge a friendship that deepens into passionate love. But the strength of this bond is put to the test when the girls are caught stealing from the Refuge's laundry, and they are sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, setting them on separate paths that may never cross again.
Drawing on real events, The Low Road is a gripping, atmospheric tale that brings to life the forgotten voices of the past – convicts, servants, the rural poor – as well as a moving evocation of love that blossomed in the face of prejudice and ill fortune.