Title: Confessions of the Fox
Description: Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.

Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all.

Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.
Subjects: Fiction, Thieves, Transgender people, History, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, London (england), fiction, LGBTQ historical fiction, LGBTQ gender identity, Literary, Historical, General, LGBT, Transgender, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Historical, collection:leslie_feinberg_award=finalist
Places: London (England)
People: Jack Sheppard (1702-1724)
Time periods: 18th century