The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
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The Dress Lodger

Author: Sheri Holman

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 25 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005

Synopsis

Young Gustine is a dress lodger, a prostitute who rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. By day a potters assistant, by night a courtesan of the streets, Gustine works hard to support her fragile only child. But Gustines life is soon to change dramatically.

About Sheri Holman

Sheri Holman is the author of A Stolen Tongue; Th e Dress Lodger, a New York
Times Notable Book; and Th e Mammoth Cheese, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and a San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.

Reviews

Goodreads review by A.B.

This novel is sick, dark, hopeless. It is difficult to get into, because of the strange point of view that is not explained until later on. It tells the story of the uprise of Cholera morbus in a small city in England. It has a doctor who steals corpses to teach anatomy and a potter woman who have t......more

Goodreads review by da

Strife and a different sort of love in the time of cholera. Vividly illustrated via a compelling premise, characters, and ironic twists for thoughtful readers. The audiobook performer is superb.......more

Goodreads review by David

Turn the pages of The Dress Lodger and you’re turning the dial on a time machine. Destination: England, 1831. Sheri Holman’s novel is one of those rare pieces of historical fiction which thrust you so completely into another time, another place, that the modern world—with all its bright, sparkly conv......more

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