The Death Of Shame Ambrose Parry Canongate Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

1854 Edinburgh Respectable Faces Hide Private Sins Apprentice Sarah Fisher Is Helping Fund Dr Will Raven\ S Emerging Medical Practice In Exchange For Being Secretly Trained As A Doctor Needs No Instruction The Inequalities That Beset Her Gender But Even She Has Eyes Opened When Help Sought Search Missing Woman Annabel Banks Was Promised Job Prestigious Household Never Appeared At Employer\ House And There Been Word From Since Sarah\ Inquiries Lead To Discover Plight Of Hundreds Girls Ensnared Edinburgh\ Many Brothels: Lured Abused Left Ruined Society Obsessed With Moral Purity Meanwhile Prominent Figure Throws Himself Scott Monument Raven Asked Establish Whether Death Indeed Suicide If So What Might Have Driven This Highly Successful Man Take His Own Life Drawing Upon Real Historical Events Shame Takes Into Treacherous Labyrinth Exploitation Corruption High-Level Complicity World Where People Are Prisoners Their Secrets Only Path Liberty Σελίδες: 432 Διαστάσεις: 15 9X15 9Cm