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This was a 3.5 read for me.
A gritty and compelling storyline exploring the underbelly of late eighteenth-century England. This novel concentrates on the world of female pugilists and through the storyline the readers sees the challenges imposed by class, status and gender for those who either did not meet the perceived standards of the times or who were unfortunate to fall prey to scrupulous people. But survival makes people do what is necessary to make it through another day.
At first I was not ...more
A gritty and compelling storyline exploring the underbelly of late eighteenth-century England. This novel concentrates on the world of female pugilists and through the storyline the readers sees the challenges imposed by class, status and gender for those who either did not meet the perceived standards of the times or who were unfortunate to fall prey to scrupulous people. But survival makes people do what is necessary to make it through another day.
At first I was not ...more
Fabulous read. Very original. I look forward to more from this author.
I did not finish. I couldn't take 500 pages of fighting. There may have been some redeeming qualities to the book, but I wasn't going to endure the fight scenes to find out. Moving on.
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