Pleasures Of Men |
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| Authors: | Williams, Kate |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC019000 |
| ISBN: | 9781443404228, Related ISBNs: 1443404225, 9781443404204, 9781443404228 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 416, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul is nineteen and lives with her uncle in a rambling house in London’s East End. Sheltered and nervous, she has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination. But then a murderer strikes the city, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, leading the press to christen him the Man of Crows. Catherine becomes obsessed with the grim crimes, and as she devours the news, she discovers she can channel the voices of the dead . . . and comes to believe she will eventually channel the Man of Crows himself.
The murders continue to incite panic in the city, and Catherine gradually realizes she has put herself in the centre of a deadly trap of sexual obsession, deceit and betrayal.
Elegant, mysterious and thrilling, The Pleasures of Men reveals the dark, beating heart of 19th-century London, where corruption and desperate desires lurked under a serene surface.
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