Author : Katy Darby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 190549081X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)
Book Synopsis The Whores' Asylum by : Katy Darby
Download or read book The Whores' Asylum written by Katy Darby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, gothic debut sure to appeal to fans of Sarah Waters and Susanna Clarke. Oxford, 1887: Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her reign, a stone's throw 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 as ever lifted her petticoats. When Stephen Chapman, a brilliant young medical student, is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford, his closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them, or stop Diana, the woman who seems destined to drive them apart.