Confessions of the Fox / Jordy Rosenberg.
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TextPublisher: London : Atlantic Fiction, 2019Description: xiv, 329 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786496256 (pbk.) :Subject(s): London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Historical. | Historical.DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Munshi has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Now they find themselves at the centre of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General - or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins and authenticity of the manuscript as Jack and Bess trace the connections between the bowels of Newgate Prison and the dissection chambers of the Royal College, in a bawdy novel about gender, love, and liberation.
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Originally published: 2018.
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Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Munshi has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Now they find themselves at the centre of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General - or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins and authenticity of the manuscript as Jack and Bess trace the connections between the bowels of Newgate Prison and the dissection chambers of the Royal College, in a bawdy novel about gender, love, and liberation.
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