Slammerkin
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ISBN: 1554684706 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, May 2009
Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace—a des...
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Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace—a desire that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. In the end, it is clothes, their splendour and their deception, that bring Mary to the brink of disaster. Slammerkin is both a brilliant evocation of another era and a timeless tale of the rage of adolescence.
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