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The butcher's hook

In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.

Main Author: Ellis, Janet (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Daughters > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Women > England > London > Social conditions > Fiction.
Butchers > Fiction.
Arranged marriage > England > Fiction.
London (England) > Social conditions > 18th century > Fiction.
London (England) > History > 18th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > England.
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
Physical Description: 347 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781681773117
1681773112
Author Notes: Janet Ellis trained as an actress at the Central London School of Speech and Drama. She is best known as a presenter on the popular British television show, Blue Peter, and contributes to numerous radio and television programs. The Butcher's Hook is her first novel, and it has been long listed for the Desmond Elliot Prize.

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