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Sunderland in 1832 is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, but life goes on relentlessly around it. Gustine, a sixteen-year-old prostitute who rents her beautiful blue dress from her pimp, is as busy as ever trying to earn a living to keep her baby fed. Her baby was born with its heart on the outside of its body, so when Gustine meets a doctor whose specialty is anatomy she resolves to help him find dead bodies to practise on, if he will in return help her...
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| ISBN: | 9780340717837 |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Pub date: | 21 Oct 1999 |
| DEWEY: | 813.54 |
| DEWEY edition: | 21 |
| Number of pages: | 291 |
| Weight: | 463g |
| Height: | 154mm |
| Width: | 234mm |
| Spine width: | 234mm |
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