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London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera is everywhere. Eminent MP Sir Charles Cooper decides it is too risky for his younger daughter, the strangely beautiful and troubled Harriet, and sends her-but not her beloved sister Mary-to the countryside. Rusholme is a world away... read more

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As dusk fell the lamplighters with their ladders hurried along the main thoroughfares, dodging the crowds, climbing upwards like monkeys, lighting the gas lamps.

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Thirty-five chapters

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  1. Barbara Ewing (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Sphere
Country: London
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 9780751533903
Page Count: 408

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