The dress lodger

Description:

"Holman delivers a stunning exploration of sinister Industrial England, prostitution, and the dark secrets of nineteenth-century medical science. Reminiscent of An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears and the works of Caleb Carr, The Dress Lodger is a historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Teenage prostitution,  Prostitutes,  Single mothers,  Body snatching,  Fiction,  Unmarried mothers,  Historical fiction,  Physicians,  History,  Medicine,  Practice,  Surgeons,  Large type books,  England, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, suspense,  Social conditions,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: Sunderland (Tyne and Wear, England)