The Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld

ISBN: 0393339076

Author: Stockbridge, Sara

Condition: New

"Stockbridge captures the mood of Dickensian London perfectly in this gripping debut."-Booklist Whitechapel, 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane, their home a little oasis in the squalor of Londons East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Graces history is about to catch up with her. Out in the countryside Mr. Blunt rocks in his chair, vowing furious retribution. He has never forgotten his scarlet treasure, or the coquettish young woman who stole it from him.Fast-paced, racy, and reminiscent of Charles Dickenss Oliver Twist, Grace Hammer depicts nineteenth-century London amid corruption and a plague of poverty, peopled by orphans, harlots, and petty thieves. Sara Stockbridge introduces an unlikely heroine in Grace Hammer, a captivating young matriarch in a complicated web of intrigue, deceit, loyalties, and betrayal. Originally published in hardcover as Grace Hammer.