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We’re in Oxford, it’s 1887, and a stone’s throw away from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female. When, in this den of Victorian inequity, a student of medicine is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming fallen women, his closest friend feels a gnawing sense of dread. But even he - who has experienced the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman first hand - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them.
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The Unpierced Heart, Katy Darby
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- 2012
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- Title
- The Unpierced Heart
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Katy Darby
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0241954223
- ISBN13
- 9780241954225
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, 19th century, England, Gothic, Victorian Era, Prostitution, Gynecology
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- The Whores' Asylum
- Rating
- 3.3 out of 5
- Description
- We’re in Oxford, it’s 1887, and a stone’s throw away from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female. When, in this den of Victorian inequity, a student of medicine is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming fallen women, his closest friend feels a gnawing sense of dread. But even he - who has experienced the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman first hand - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them.