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She graduated with a degree in english literature from leeds university in 1994 and she went to work for harcourt, brace. Hes quick to accept an offer of free room and board from the mysterious samuel fleetonly to find out just hours later that it was fleets last roommate who turned up dead. Read the devil on the doorstep online, read in mobile or kindle. A gripping murder mystery for fans of antonia hodgson. The devil in the marshalsea by hodgson, antonia ebook. Author antonia hodgson hits the ground running, setting a blistering pace that kept. Tom hawkins, the 25yearold wastrel son of an english minister, has the misfortune to land in londons hellish debtors prison, the marshalsea gaol. The devil in the marshalsea by antonia hodgson is available now in hardback and ebook. Thats what makes the difference between a great novel and an amazing novel. Hodgson serves up a rare delight in this story of a young mans desperate endeavors in the debtors prison of marshalsea in london in the early 1700s. Antonia hodgson has a real feel for how people thought and. In her first historic mystery, the devil in the marshalsea, antonia hodgson has crafted a fascinating story in a finely drawn setting, filled with dickensian style characters. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book.
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Antonia hodgson paperback published june 2014 set in the darkest debtors prison in georgian london, this gripping historical thriller follows tom hawkins as he, due to his penchant for wine, women and cards, ends up in marshalsea where murder runs rampant and no one is as they seem. June 10, 2014 in 1727, a murder occurs in the marshalsea debtors prison in london, and a recently incarcerated. Download audiobooks directly onto your computer, smartphone or tablet from rnib. She attended littleover community school where she first studied the time of the early georgians in alevel history. Its a devastating journey at times, but a compelling one antonia hodgson, author of the devil in the marshalsea a deeply compelling and poignant story that, like the novels of pat barker or sebastian faulks birdsong, dramatises the tragic lessons of war, the significance of belonging and of memory without which we become lost, even to. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. The author based her account on a memoir written in the time period by a debtor who lived there and includes the actual scoundrels who ruled the castle in those treacherous years. The devil in the marshalsea by antonia hodgson is in the top ten general fiction books of 2014. About the author antonia hodgson was born and grew up in derby and studied english at the university of leeds. As a consequence he is taken to the infamous marshalsea debtors prison.
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