another 5 star review for 'Alice'
Another 5 star Review for 'East End Alice'.
East End Alice is about a 12 year old girl living with her mother in East End, London. A nasty character comes into her life, and gets her sold into slavery, working as a maid in a high end brothel in London. The rather evil owners of the brothel sees poor Alicia as a future prospect for a new prostitute.
Without revealing any more of the plot, I will only note that this to me is a 'feel-good' story, it's not a tragedy, and that in itself is an important point. It's not nice to read tragedies involving a child and prostitution.
The story is paralleled by the real development of legislation against child prostitution in England in the late 19th century. Reading the novel made me think a lot about the fates of children traficked into prostitution today. It's a really horrible situation.
I really enjoyed reading East End Alice. The dialogue took getting used to, as much of it is written in Cockney English, but that really adds to the authenticity of the novel. I highly recommend this novel!
East End Alice is about a 12 year old girl living with her mother in East End, London. A nasty character comes into her life, and gets her sold into slavery, working as a maid in a high end brothel in London. The rather evil owners of the brothel sees poor Alicia as a future prospect for a new prostitute.
Without revealing any more of the plot, I will only note that this to me is a 'feel-good' story, it's not a tragedy, and that in itself is an important point. It's not nice to read tragedies involving a child and prostitution.
The story is paralleled by the real development of legislation against child prostitution in England in the late 19th century. Reading the novel made me think a lot about the fates of children traficked into prostitution today. It's a really horrible situation.
I really enjoyed reading East End Alice. The dialogue took getting used to, as much of it is written in Cockney English, but that really adds to the authenticity of the novel. I highly recommend this novel!
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