periwinkleReads reviewed Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
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4 stars
I ate up this engrossing, well-structured tale.
390 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2002 by Harcourt.
Slammerkin
4 stars
(4 reviews)
Exciting, riveting, historical period book about a young seamstress who through a series of misfortunes (to put it mildly) falls in with a veteran prostitute struggling to survive in big bad London.
Subjects
- Saunders, Mary, -- d. 1764 -- Fiction
- Women -- England -- London -- Fiction
- Women murderers -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- Fiction
- London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
- Monmouth (Wales) -- Fiction
Places
- England
- Monmouth (Wales)
- Great Britain
- London
- London (England)