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Sweet Thames
Matthew KnealeRRP: £8.99
5 July 2018
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786496409
RRP: £6.99
5 July 2018
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786496416
In the summer of 1849, cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of sewage cascading into the Thames – for many Londoners the only source of drinking water.
Joshua Jeavons, a young and idealistic engineer, embarks on an obsessive quest to find the cause of the epidemic. As he labours in a fog of incomprehension, his domestic life is troubled by the baffling coldness of his beautiful bride, Isobella. But when she suddenly disappears, his desperate search for her takes him to a netherworld of slum-dwellers, pickpockets and scavengers of subterranean London.
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