London (England) -- Fiction -- 19th century

From the author of 'Me and the Fat Man', this novel moves through a Victorian London which is tender, murky and unsettling. It is a tale of the unspeakable and tragic extremes of loss and need. Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2000.

When Charlotte Pitt learned of her mother's distress at losing a locket with a compromising picture in it, she could not know that it was the beginning of a chain of bizarre events that would end in sudden death.