Poor Girls - Meet the female Peaky Blinders in this gripping and darkly funny thriller

Eleanor Mackridge leaves behind her working-class life to reinvent herself in the all-female the Forty Elephants gang, in the new historical crime from award-winning writer Clare Whitfield.

About the author

Clare Whitfield is a UK based writer. While studying for an MA in Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Winchester, her fiction appeared on Spelk, Commuter-Lit, Literary Orphans and in Matt Shaw's Masters of Horror anthology. Clare has published two crime fiction novels, People of Abandoned Character, which won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award in 2021, and The Gone and The Forgotten. Poor Girls is her third novel.

Summary

New historical crime from award-winning writer Clare Whitfield, based on a real-life all-female London crime gang. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Mackridge leaves behind her working-class family to reinvent herself as 'Nell the Mack' in the Forty Elephants.

Foreword

New historical crime from award-winning writer Clare Whitfield, based on a real-life all-female London crime gang. Nineteen-year-old Eleanor Mackridge leaves behind her working-class family to reinvent herself as 'Nell the Mack' in the Forty Elephants.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Whitfield
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9781837930869
• ISBN: 978-1-83793-086-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Historical fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, First World War fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Feminism and feminist theory, FICTION / Feminist