TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katy Darby
TI  - The Whores' Asylum
SN  - 9781905490806
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 0000///02/022012///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Penguin Books Ltd
KW  - Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
KW  -  Oxford (England)
KW  - Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901
N1  - Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); General (US: Trade)
N2  - 'When you read these words, and all those that follow, I am afraid it must be because I am no longer here to speak them to you. Love is a disease; no doubt of it, and one which has proved mortal to many men down the ages ...' Oxford, 1887: Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her reign, a stone's throw from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female as ever lifted her petticoats. When Stephen Chapman, a brilliant young medical student, is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford, his closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them, or stop Diana, the woman who seems destined to drive them apart
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