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The Alphabet of Heart's Desire

by Brian Keaney - £10.99  Holland House (2017)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781910688373 | ISBN 10: 1910688371

A VISITOR CALLS WITH A GIFT AND A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST...
 
In 1802 Thomas de Quincey, a young man from a comfortable middle-class background who would go on to become one of the most celebrated writers of his day, collapsed on Oxford Street and was discovered by a teenage prostitute who brought him back to her room and nursed him to health. It was the beginning of a relationship that would introduce Thomas to a world just below the surface of London’s polite society, where pleasure was a tradeable commodity and opium could seem the only relief from poverty. Yet it is also a world where love might blossom, and goodness survive.
 
The lives of a street girl, an aspiring writer, and a freed slave cross and re-cross the slums of London in this novel about the birth of passion, the burden of addiction, and the consolations of literature.

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