Great Stink

Name: Great Stink
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ISBN: 9780156030885

ISBN-10: 0156030888

ISBN-13: 9780156030885

Edition: 2005

Authors: Clare Clark

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Clare Clark's critically acclaimed "The Great Stink" "reeks of talent" ("The Washington Post Book World") as it vividly brings to life the dark and mysterious underworld of Victorian London. Set in 1855, it tells the story of William May, an engineer who has returned home to London from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job trans-forming the city's sewer system, he believes that he will be able to find salvation in the subterranean world beneath the city. But the peace of the tunnels is shattered by a murder, and William is implicated as the killer. Could he truly have committed the crime? How will he bring the truth above-ground? With richly atmospheric prose, "The Great…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.660

Clare Clark is the author of four highly acclaimed historical novels: The Great Stink, Savage Lands (both longlisted for the Orange Prize),The Nature of Monsters and Beautiful Lies, which was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction in 2013. Born in 1967, she graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in History, and now lives in London with her husband and two children.