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Dec 05, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
It is 1832 when an outbreak of cholera reaches England. In the riverside city of Sunderland, a teenage girl, a potter’s assistant by day, a prostitute by night, struggles to support herself and her baby. When a young doctor from London arrives in town their paths cross with dire consequences. Set in the time of the Reform Bill, with child labour and poverty confronting the working class, this heavily atmospheric novel is both gruesome and engaging.