this is the pick for next months book club read (great choice liz!). after reading the description i'm super excited to dive into it this weekend...
Set in Sunderland, England in 1831, The Dress Lodger is the unusual tale of Gustine, a fifteen-year-old prostitute who rents a fancy blue gown from her landlord/pimp in order to attract a higher-class and therefore higher-paying clientele. To protect his precious investment, the landlord Whilkey employs the Eye, a one-eyed yet sharp-sighted old woman, to follow Gustine and the dress among the back alleys where these supposedly higher-class clients lead her for furtive couplings.
If this premise weren't intriguing enough, Gustine is strangely interested in the occasional corpses she stumbles across in the seedier parts of Sunderland. In her enterprising way, she has made a deal with a Dr. Henry Chiver to lead him to any stray bodies she finds. In return, she hopes he will find a way to help her baby boy, a healthy little infant except for the fact that he was born with his heart on the outside of his chest cavity.
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