The poison thread : a novel
Book |
Penguin Books,
New York :
2019.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread--because Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches. The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations"--of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses--will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption. Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
Details
- ISBN: 9780143134053 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 350 p. ; 21 cm.print
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2019.
- General Note: First published as: The corset. London : Raven Books, 2018.