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1846: The First of the Jem Flockhart
1846: The First of the Jem Flockhart
Ramshackle and crumbling, St Saviour’s Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors the doctors bicker and fight. Ambition, jealousy and hatred seethe beneath the veneer of professional courtesy.
Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything, but says nothing.
And then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden inside the infirmary’s old chapel, her quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten past – with fatal consequences . . .
There was a real hospital called St Saviour’s and it was located at 10 Osnaburgh Street, Regent’s Park, NW1. This one was demolished in 1962 but the one in the novel will live on in your mind and nightmares.
“St Saviour’s Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and cramped corridors the doctors bicker and fight.”
Destination/location: London Author/guide: E M Thomson Departure Time: 1846
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