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The Whores' Asylum by Katy Darby (view source)
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|title=The Whores' Asylum
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|isbn=978-1905490806
|pages=337
|publisher=Penguin Fig Tree
|date=February 2012
|website=http://www.katydarby.com/
|summary=A debut novel and historical melodrama set in Victorian Cambridge and Oxford
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|aznus=B006JP1SVU
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''The Whores’ Whores' Asylum'', a debut novel, is a tale of friendship, love, sin and criminality set in late 19th century Cambridge and Oxford. The comparison to one of my favourite historical novelists, Sarah Waters, also caught my attention. Sadly, I was a little bit disappointed.
Edward Fraser, the primary narrator, is a Cambridge graduate who has chosen to continue his theological studies at Oxford, and becomes good friends with his room mate Stephen, a medical student. He is dismayed when Stephen starts working with the local fallen women, and even more so when Stephen announces he has fallen in love – as he has met Stephen’s beloved, Diana, before.
Other historical novels with a Victorian setting include [[Little Bones by Janette Jenkins]] and [[Cross My Palm by Sara Stockbridge]]
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