Lily
Author: Tremain, Rose
ISBN: 9781529115178
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 29mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
From fated novelist Rose Tremain a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murder
From Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rose Tremain comes a gripping novel of murder and revenge set in Victorian England
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer...
London, 1850. On a freezing winter's night, a baby is abandoned at the gates of a park only to be saved by a young policeman and taken to the Foundling Hospital.
After suffering years of brutal hardship at the Hospital, Lily is released into the world of Victorian London. But she is hiding a dreadful secret...
When Lily and the policeman meet again, Lily is convinced that he holds the key to her happiness. But might he also be the one to uncover her crime and so condemn her to death?
'Enthralling... Tremain evokes Victorian London with visceral intensity in a gripping and deeply humane novel exploring themes of rejection, poverty, guilt and redemption' Observer
ISBN: 9781529115178
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 29mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
From fated novelist Rose Tremain a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murder
From Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rose Tremain comes a gripping novel of murder and revenge set in Victorian England
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer...
London, 1850. On a freezing winter's night, a baby is abandoned at the gates of a park only to be saved by a young policeman and taken to the Foundling Hospital.
After suffering years of brutal hardship at the Hospital, Lily is released into the world of Victorian London. But she is hiding a dreadful secret...
When Lily and the policeman meet again, Lily is convinced that he holds the key to her happiness. But might he also be the one to uncover her crime and so condemn her to death?
'Enthralling... Tremain evokes Victorian London with visceral intensity in a gripping and deeply humane novel exploring themes of rejection, poverty, guilt and redemption' Observer
