- Publisher: Raven
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 406pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 215x134mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781408889602
- Product code: 511506
The Corset
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Dorothea uses her charitable visits to Oakgate prison to explore her belief in phrenology, but when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, who claims the murders she is accused of had a supernatural dimension, Dorothea begins to question her own sense of what is rational.
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'The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece' Sarah Hilary
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she finds herself drawn to Ruth, a teenage seamstress - and self-confessed murderess - who nurses a dark and uncanny secret. A secret that is leading her straight to the gallows. As Ruth reveals her disturbing past to Dorothea, the fates of these two women entwine, and with every revelation, a new layer of doubt is cast...
Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
'The Corset is a contender for my Book of the Year. Beautifully written, intricately plotted, a masterpiece' Sarah Hilary
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.
When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she finds herself drawn to Ruth, a teenage seamstress - and self-confessed murderess - who nurses a dark and uncanny secret. A secret that is leading her straight to the gallows. As Ruth reveals her disturbing past to Dorothea, the fates of these two women entwine, and with every revelation, a new layer of doubt is cast...
Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
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Dorothea uses her charitable visits to Oakgate prison to explore her belief in phrenology, but when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, who claims the murders she is accused of had a supernatural dimension, Dorothea begins to question her own sense of what is rational.
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