01825cam a2200313 i 4500 332816097 TxAuBib 20171101120000.0 171009s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017042399 9781408883396 28.00 1408883392 28.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Roberts, Michèle. The Walworth beauty [BOOK] / Michèle Roberts. London, UK : Bloomsbury, 2017. 389 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph is tasked with coaxing testimony from prostitutes. Roaming the Southwark streets, he is tempted by brothels' promises of pleasure - and as he struggles with his assignment, he seeks answers in Apricot Place, where the enigmatic Mrs Dulcimer runs a boarding house. As these entwined stories unfold, alive with the sensations of London past and present, the two eras brush against each other. 20171117. Boardinghouses Fiction. Walworth (London, England) Fiction. London (England) History 1800-1950 Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction.