Hope Against Hope by Sally Zigmond (Myrmidon, £8.99, myrmidonbooks.com)
Hope Against Hope by Sally Zigmond (Myrmidon, £8.99, myrmidonbooks.com) WHO would have thought that respectable Victorian Harrogate could boast unsavoury salons and brothels and a whole range of fraudsters and unscrupulous predators.
Yet such proves the case for impoverished sisters Carrie and May, on the run from the cholera-infested slums of Leeds and seeking a fresh start in the spa town.
There might not be much here to keep the likes of Queen Victoria amused, but the rest of us will lap it up.
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