Poor Girls
Poor Girls
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Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield
New historical crime from award-winning writer Clare Whitfield, based on a real-life all-female London crime gang. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Mackridge leaves behind her working-class family to reinvent herself as 'Nell the Mack' in the Forty Elephants.
'Poor Girls is a brave, bold novel, illuminating the present through the pastIt shows us how women have so often had to take the rights that society refuses to give them. You'll fall hard for Nell and the Forty Elephants.' * Araminta Hall *
‘Funny, fast-paced and dark, Poor Girls is a riveting read, with dialogue that absolutely crackles and a fabulously unsentimental heroine in Nell.’ * Elodie Harper *
'The story moves along at a terrific pace with wonderfully roguish characters, and great period detail. Really enjoyable.' * Ian Moore *
'A richly vivid and picaresque masterwork, Poor Girls is by turns humorous, horrifying and humane.' * Tom Mead *
‘A compulsive read. Brighton waitress Eleanor is recruited by the female crime syndicate the Forty Elephants into a world of champagne, diamonds and furs. But there’s a price to pay for postwar women who wanted to become something - how far will she go, and will she get away with it? A real page turner.’ * Caitlin Davies *
‘Funny, fast-paced and dark, Poor Girls is a riveting read, with dialogue that absolutely crackles and a fabulously unsentimental heroine in Nell.’ * Elodie Harper *
'The story moves along at a terrific pace with wonderfully roguish characters, and great period detail. Really enjoyable.' * Ian Moore *
'A richly vivid and picaresque masterwork, Poor Girls is by turns humorous, horrifying and humane.' * Tom Mead *
‘A compulsive read. Brighton waitress Eleanor is recruited by the female crime syndicate the Forty Elephants into a world of champagne, diamonds and furs. But there’s a price to pay for postwar women who wanted to become something - how far will she go, and will she get away with it? A real page turner.’ * Caitlin Davies *
Clare Whitfield is a UK based writer. While studying for an MA in Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Winchester, her fiction appeared on Spelk, Commuter-Lit, Literary Orphans and in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror anthology. Clare has published two crime fiction novels, People of Abandoned Character, which won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award in 2021, and The Gone and The Forgotten. Poor Girls is her third novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781837930869 |
| ISBN 10 | 1837930864 |
| Title | Poor Girls |
| Author | Clare Whitfield |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2024-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |