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A London Murder Mystery Based on a True Historical Crime George Woolfe is a young working class East London printmaker in the early 1900’s. Frustrated by the constraints of his class and station, he sees an opportunity to escape when he by chance meets Charles Booth, author of one of the most comprehensive social surveys of London ever undertaken. But this auspicious encounter has tragic consequences for George who, within six months, is charged with the murder of a young woman. But did he do it? Set at the dawning of a new century, when the rigid class and gender boundaries of the Victorian age were soon to shift and realign, BIRDCAGE WALK is a historical novel that vividly brings to life a real-life Edwardian murder and the possible miscarriage of justice that followed it.
So I finished it, not the best read that I have ever experienced but an interesting story. However I was fascinated to read the afterword by Helen Dunmore, a real insight about how she constructed the story.
Birdcage Walk: A Novel | 
