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The Dress Lodger
The Dress Lodger | Sheri Holman
8 posts | 24 read | 25 to read
In a novel set in Sunderland, England, during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute rents a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and meets a surgeon who needs help securing cadavers for his anatomy school.
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hissingpotatoes
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Bailedbailed

1/5⭐ It's a very strange narrative voice that felt like the experience of an ADHD train of thought in narrative form. The omniscient narrator would enter a room, hone in on a particular person or detail, get sidetracked into a different time and/or space describing the history of the character or historical relevance of an object, eventually return to the room, and then do the same thing with every single character/object in the scene. O_O

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bookaddict30
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Panpan

Rating: 2.5 Stars!!
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I hated how mean the characters were to the man character and how the storyline never picked up.

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bookaddict30
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Starting Book 3 of October and Book 146 of 2020!!!

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batsy
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During a cholera epidemic in 19th-century England, a fifteen-year-old girl takes on two jobs - one of which is to be a "dress lodger" at night - to take care of her young baby boy and herself. This is historical fiction as I like it best: richly-detailed, complex, and gritty, vividly depicting the social stratification among people of different classes.

#SheWorksHardForTheMoney #FierceFeb @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Great blurb! Sounds fascinating 6y
Kalalalatja Stacked! 6y
CaitlinR What‘s a Dress Lodger? (edited) 6y
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readordierachel This sounds excellent. Stacked! 6y
batsy @CaitlinR In the Victorian times it was a term for sex workers who rented out a nice gown (the rent was cut from their pay; they were usually working for a particular brothel) to attract an "upper-class" clientele for higher pay. 6y
RohitSawant Awesome blurb! Stacking this! 6y
readinginthedark How fascinating! I was just listening to a bit about anatomy studies and corpse stealing in Mary Roach‘s Stiff! 6y
batsy Thanks @rohit-sawant and that's on my list @readinginthedark , it seems fascinating! 6y
readinginthedark It‘s good so far! Just don‘t read it when you‘re hungry or your stomach feels queasy! 😆 6y
Suet624 Read this years ago. Was surprised to see it pop up on your posts. Wasn‘t sure it was still in print. (edited) 6y
batsy @Suet624 I bought it a long time ago, too. One of those lucky finds! 6y
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Oftencantdecide
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#readjanuary- #DressesOnCovers (and in titles)

I read this book quite a while ago, but I remember loving it.

elkeOriginal This was my choice for today too! I am SO glad you posted it! I too read it awhile ago and remember liking it though the details are hazy enough to warrant a reread! 7y
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Martta
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Mehso-so

This is not at all the kind of book it says on the back cover. I was so surprised to find out what the story was like. It was ok. But the detailed describtion of surgeries and the life of an prostitute during historical London made it a bit difficult to read and at parts it was so gross.

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Ms.Story
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Mehso-so

Just finished this one on audio -- the author did a fine job with descriptions of both characters & setting. It was easy to imagine myself there. The difficulties of medical professionals of the time was interesting. However the plot was a bit slow.

Suzze This was really good! Had to look and see, I read it 14 years ago. Yikes! Time sure does go by fast. 8y
LeslieO I also read it years ago and while I remember that I really liked it, that's all I remember! 8y
deniselynn I couldn't finish this one. I still have it sitting in a stack of books I *might* go back to. 😞 8y
Martta I read this book as well. I liked it kind of but I had this odd feeling like something was missing from the story or like something was out of place. It's difficult to describe. But I think something could have been done differently with the story or the characters. 8y
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Ms.Story
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Just finished the first chapter of this audiobook. Intriguing storyline but not sure about the narrator addressing the audience ???

BibliophileBytheSea That's too bad 🙄 the quality of the narrator matters a lot for me. 8y
lqr I think it'd be interesting to have the narrator break the fourth wall so to speak, just as long as their voice isn't monotonous! 8y
Elisa Oh, I don't like when they do that either 😝 8y
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Reviewsbylola I remember liking this book quite a bit when I read it years ago so that must not have bothered me! 8y
Angelala007 Man, I wanted to like this book but the narration was the problem. 8y
tpixie Intriguing! I just read a book where they use the Second person narrative -that was weird - "" You" walk up to the counter. " 8y
Bibliogeekery I really enjoyed reading this book but am not sure how I would have felt if it was an audiobook 8y
Lindy I enjoyed when Michel Faber used that technique in 8y
MSGirlTJ I read it along time ago, and the first chapter has stuck with me. 8y
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