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Spitalfields, 1840: A murderer is terrorising the women of London
The Pleasures of Men
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Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London’s East End. When a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a crow’s beak, Catherine is appalled yet fascinated so she starts
As the murders cause panic throughout the city, she comes to believe she can channel the voices of his victims and that they will lead her to The Man himself. But she’s already far closer than she realises – and lurking behind the lies she’s been told about her past are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure.
Travel Guide
Victorian London
This is the Spitalfields market and area of times when streets were nothing more than dirty walkways and streams of litter and dirt. The market is one infestation of old food, human waste and jetsam of all descriptions
“Night comes late to Spitalfields Market, across the dump at the back used by the traders for the detritus of old vegetables and splintered crates
The first scavengers are the younger men, dismissed soldiers hiking useless legs,crawling in the dump and delving in their hands”
Poverty walks hand in hand with dirt and grime. Insanity and prostitution are their best friends.
The city is divided in two – some are wealthy and clean, respectable and socially acceptable whilst others have to scavenge for food, try to survive and to live each day as it comes. This is a great, smelly and disgustingly evocative sense of settin
Streetview Maps
A) London - Spitalfields Market
B) London - St Paul's
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Pleasures of Men
Author/ Guide: Kate Williams Destination: London Departure Time: 1840s
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