The Butcher's Hook
Anne Jaccob is coming of age in late eighteenth-century London, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor -- a great friend of her father's -- and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Victorian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored.
Her saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher's boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be her salvation or damnation? And how far will she go to get what she wants?
Dark and sweeping, The Butcher's Hookis a richly textured debut featuring one of the most memorable characters in fiction.
368 pages
English edition · First published 2016 by House of Anansi Press · ISBN 9781487000998
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