Title: The wild man
Description: In Victorian England, Joe Rat has escaped the clutches of the criminal mastermind, Mother, and is trying to make an honest living in a better part of London, but when a rich philanthropist tracks down a man claiming to be Joe's missing father--a British army deserter--he must determine where his loyalties lie.
Subjects: Street children, Impersonation, Fathers, Fiction, Runaways, Crime, Social classes, History, Detective and mystery stories, Children's fiction, Runaways, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fathers, fiction, Great britain, history, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, London (england), history, fiction
Places: Great Britain, London (England)
Time periods: 1800-1950, Victoria, 1837-1901