The dress lodger
By: Sheri Holman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Teenage prostitution -- Fiction; Unmarried mothers -- Fiction; Single mothers -- Fiction; Body snatching -- Fiction; Prostitutes -- Fiction; Physicians -- Fiction; Sunderland (Tyne and Wear, England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Holman delivers a stunning exploration of sinister Industrial England, prostitution, and the dark secrets of nineteenth-century medical science. Reminiscent of An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and the works of Caleb Carr, The Dress Lodger is a historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice."--BOOK JACKET.