{"product_id":"walworth-beauty","title":"Walworth Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson \u003cbr\u003e\n2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away, and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1851: and Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph is tasked with coaxing testimony from prostitutes. Roaming the Southwark streets, he is tempted by brothels' promises of pleasure - and as he struggles with his assignment, he seeks answers in Apricot Place, where the enigmatic Mrs Dulcimer runs a boarding house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs these entwined stories unfold, alive with the sensations of London past and present, the two eras brush against each other - a breath at Madeleine's neck, a voice in her head - the murmurs of ghosts echoing through time. Rendered in immediate, intoxicating prose, The Walworth Beauty is a haunting tale of desire and exploitation, isolation and loss, and the faltering search for human connection; this is Michele Roberts at her masterful best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michèle Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67632578461849,"sku":"9781408883426","price":790.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/5642\/6905\/files\/the-walworth-beauty.jpg?v=1791548454","url":"https:\/\/booksworldstore.com\/products\/walworth-beauty","provider":"Books World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}