The Unpierced Heart

Informationen zum Autor Katy Darby studied English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford, and Creative Writing at U.E.A. where she received the David Higham Award. Her fiction has been read on BBC Radio, and she has published stories in Slice, Mslexia and The London Magazine, as well as winning prizes in several international fiction competitions. She teaches writing at City University, edits the short story magazine Litro (www.litro.co.uk) and co-runs the monthly live fiction event Liars' League (www.liarsleague.com). She lives in London. Klappentext Oxford! 1887.When Stephen Chapman! a brilliant young medical student! is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford! his closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them! or stop the woman who will drive them apart. Zusammenfassung Oxford, 1887: brilliant medical student Stephen Chapman volunteers at a shelter devoted to reforming fallen women, where he meets and falls for Diana, a girl who has broken hearts and inspired deadly duels. His best friend Edward sees her as a dangerous temptress, but Stephen believes she is a wronged woman.

Product details

• Authors: Katy Darby, Darby Katy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780241954225
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95422-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary