Lily

From 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

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Lily, in addition to its pellucid prose, is shamelessly gripping Jake Kerridge Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Rose Tremain, Tremain Rose
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781529115178
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1517-8
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Suffolk, FICTION / Noir, c 1800 to c 1900, Modern and contemporary fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)