![]() ![]() ![]() The more Hester learns about strong-minded, active Rebekah the more she comes to care for her. In an Eliza-Doolittle-style-twist, the doctor wants his sister, Rebekah Brock, to educate Hester and prove the working classes’ intelligence. When a chance encounter throws Hester into the path of a philanthropic doctor she grabs the opportunity to leave the slums. ![]() She’s lost her comfortable life in rural England and has moved to a disease-ridden part of the capital city, where she relies on the charity of her lecherous former gardener and his family. The death of her father, a vicar, has forced her to near-destitution. Hestor White has heard about the missing people but is focused on her own survival. The story begins in 1831 as men, women and children begin to disappear from London’s filthy, poverty-stricken backstreets. The Wicked Cometh is a riches to rags (and back again) story that makes me thoroughly glad to live in the twenty-first century. Laura Carlin’s debut novel combines history, mystery, gore and romance. ![]()
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