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The Death of Shame

By Ambrose Parry

The Death of Shame Contemporary literature

The Death of Shame

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1854, Edinburgh. Respectable faces hide private sins. Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared. Sarah's inquiries lead her to reforming campaigners trying to publicise the plight of the hundreds of girls ensnared in Edinburgh's houses of assignation. Sarah learns how young women are lured, deceived, trafficked and raped, leaving them ruined in the eyes of a society obsessed with moral purity, and where virginity is prized as a lucrative commodity. Drawing upon real historical events, The Death of Shame takes Raven and Sarah into a treacherous labyrinth of exploitation, corruption, and immorality.
Product details
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2025-10-14
Publication Date:
2025-06-05
Publisher:
Canongate Books Ltd.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1837263434
ISBN13:
9781837263431
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
651 g
Height:
167 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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