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Fast-paced, racy, and reminiscent of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist , Grace Hammer depicts nineteenth-century London amid corruption and a plague of poverty, peopled by orphans, harlots, and petty thieves. Sara Stockbridge introduces an unlikely heroine in Grace Hammer, a captivating... Read Full Overview

Whitechapel, 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane, their home a little oasis in the squalor of London s East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Grace s history is about to catch... Read Full Overview