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The Journal of Dora Damage

By Belinda Starling

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| eBook | 9781408806456

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Book Description

London, 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that her husband Peter has arthritis in his hands, it is too late - their book-binding business is in huge debt and the family is on the brink of entering the poorhouse. But Dora proves that she is more than just a housewife and mother. She resolves toContinue

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Sex on the page and off it

The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling 452pp, Bloomsbury, £12.99 The great swell of novel writing which peaked in the late 1850s and 60s has yielded rich pickings for literary pastiche, not least because what the Victorians merely hinted at, ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Journal of Dora Damage

Putrid, smelly, overcrowded Victorian Lambeth; the Necropolitan railway rumbling away in the background; prestigious bookbinding business under threat from tyrannical husband's arthritic fingers; angelic girl child's epilepsy getting worse; debt-coll ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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1 Review

I loved this book, i wasnt planning on reading it but was so glad i did. It's very raunchy!

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