The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

Sunderland in 1832 is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, but life goes on relentlessly around it. Gustine, a sixteen-year-old prostitute who rents her beautiful blue dress from her pimp, is as busy as ever trying to earn a living to keep her baby fed. Her baby was born with its heart on the outside of its body, so when Gustine meets a doctor whose specialty is anatomy she resolves to help him find dead bodies to practise on, if he will in return help her...

Sheri Holman vividly and convincingly conjures a fully-textured fictive past peopled with strange and true characters - Charles Frazier

I found it a riveting read, thoroughly enjoyableFrom the first page I felt confident that I was in the hands of a real writer with an individual voice - literate, witty, intelligent, thoughtful - Kate Atkinson

Sheri Holman writes with extraordinary assurance and style - Miranda Seymour

Dickensian, in the best sense . . . tremendous, confident pace is matched by a knowledge of the period and its concerns - Margaret Forster

Sheri Holman s prose, tart, racy and sombre, will sing in your soul a long while - Frank McCourt

It shows a confidence and sophistication expected from a more mature, experienced writer, with a real feel for detail - The Herald - Glasgow

An impressive and crackling authenticity to her work. The smells, sounds and hideous sights of the time and place are convincingly reproduced with confidence and literary poise

'Creepily atmospheric novel - Independent

Sheri Holman grew up in rural Virginia and worked for a literary agent while writing her first novel, A STOLEN TONGUE, a mystery set along the route of a fifteenth-century religious pilgrimage. She is in her late twenties and is now a full-time writer.

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ISBN 13	9780340717837
ISBN 10	0340717831
Title	The Dress Lodger
Author	Sheri Holman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	1999-10-21
Number of pages	320
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