Clare Whitfield

Poor Girls

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Produktbeschreibung

Poor Girls is a brave, bold novel... You'll fall hard for Nell and the Forty Elephants.' ARAMINTA HALL We were never destined to have anything - so you know what we did? We took it anyway. 1922. Twenty-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her - to serve the upper classes or find a man to marry (preferably kind). She ?proved useful' working in a munitions factory during the war - handling explosives - but now, society is returning to normal and women are being put back in their place. But Eleanor has never paid attention to what society expects of her. When she crosses paths with a member of the notorious female-led gang the Forty Elephants, she is in awe of these bold women who wear diamonds and fur, drink champagne and gin, who take what they want without asking. Now, she sees a new future for herself: she can serve, marry - or steal. After all, men will only let you down. Diamonds are forever. In Poor Girls, Clare Whitfield exposes the criminal underbelly of 1920s London - but this isn't a morality tale, it's an adventure for the willingly wicked. 'Wonderfully roguish characters, and great period detail. Really enjoyable.' IAN MOORE 'A richly vivid and picaresque masterwork, Poor Girls is by turns humorous, horrifying and humane.' TOM MEAD 'A real page turner.' CAITLIN DAVIES

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781837930883
• ISBN-10: 1837930880
• Artikelnr.: 71745720

Autorenporträt

Clare Whitfield is a UK based writer. While studying for an MA in Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Winchester, her fiction appeared on Spelk, Commuter-Lit, Literary Orphans and in Matt Shaw's Masters of Horror anthology. Clare has published two crime fiction novels, People of Abandoned Character, which won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award in 2021, and The Gone and The Forgotten. Poor Girls is her third novel.

Rezensionen

'Poor Girls is a brave, bold novel, illuminating the present through the past. It shows us how women have so often had to take the rights that society refuses to give them. You'll fall hard for Nell and the Forty Elephants.'