reserved for Marlene-TC

It's here, it's here!!! After two months traveling, it's here! Thank you so much! I was especially interested in this book after hearing such good things about it and seeing it being furiously fought for in the swaps! :) Thank you, Sand, for this one. I'm VERY curious. ;)

Book Description:

Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution at a young age, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. But a dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, to become the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and to live the ordinary life of an ordinary girl. Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. She remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of London: Never give up your liberty; Clothes make the woman; Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. In the end, it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that lead Mary to disaster.

Emma Donoghue's daring, sensually charged prose casts a new sheen on the squalor and glamour of eighteenth-century England. Accurate, masterfully written, and infused with themes that still bedevil us today, Slammerkin is historical fiction for all readers.

How can someone make as many mistakes as the girl in this story? Mary Saunders annoyed me as much as she made me sympathize with her, but in the end she deserved exactly what she got. Gorgeously written book. I know now why it was so highly recommended.

This one is going to teachie on behalf of sunlightbub, as part of the BCUK Extra VBB, via BookMooch.

Thanks Xeyra and sunlightbub for this very interesting looking book.

This book is based on the true story of Mary Saunders. I didn't sympathise with the character and couldn't understand how she could just throw away all the chances she was given. However I couldn't put the book down even though Mary irritated me, and I agree with Xeyra, she got exactly what she deserved in the end.
This is now off to Renecrosspatch who won this in a swap.

Sounds intriguing! Thank you, teachie.