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Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace--a desire that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. In the end, it is clothes, their splendour and their deception, that bring Mary to the brink of disaster. Slammerkin is both a brilliant evocation of another era and a timeless tale of the rage of adolescence.
About this Author
Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish/Canadian writer and the author of six novels, including the bestselling Slammerkin, three books of short stories, two works of literary history, two anthologies and two plays. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She lives in London, Ontario, with her lover and their two children. Visit the author online atemmadonoghue.com.
Reviews
?A rock-solid novel of class conflict and desire.?
(NOW Magazine)
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