The Fatal Tree

'A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness' Observer

Newgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London:

Cruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain. What matters now is her survival of it.

In that dangerous underworld known in thieves' cant as Romeville, she will learn new trick...