The Ashes of Saint Monday
In London, 1816, the year without a summer, widowed printer Eliza Vale discovers a sealed packet hidden beneath the floorboards of her late husband’s workshop. Its pages reveal that a respected magistrate has been falsifying death records to conceal the bodies of starving children taken from the parish workhouse. As rain darkens the city and bread riots gather in the streets, Eliza must decide whether to publish the evidence, knowing the truth may destroy the only inheritance…
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