{"product_id":"fatal-tree-the","title":"Fatal Tree, The","description":"''A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness'' Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain. What matters now is her survival of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn that dangerous underworld known in thieves'' cant as Romeville, she will learn new tricks and trades. And all begins with her fateful meeting, that very first night, with the corrupt thief-taker general Jonathan Wild.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it is the infamous gaol-breaker, Jack Sheppard, who will lay Romeville at her feet . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the true story that mesmerised eighteenth-century society, the acclaimed author of The Long Firm delivers a tour de force: a riveting, artful tale of crime and rough justice, love and betrayal. Rich in the street slang of the era, it vividly conjures up a murky world of illicit dens and molly-houses; a world where life was lived on the edge, in the shadow of that fatal tree - the gallows.","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57842874843471,"sku":"9781473637764","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781473637764_1-fatal-tree-the.jpg?v=1780466946","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/fatal-tree-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}