Broadview Editions A Child of the Jago, (Paperback)

from TheBooknerd

When this was presented to me as a "slum novel" I was prepared to hate it. I expected poverty, thugs, filth ... in short, a celebration of human indecency, like "Gangs of New York" in prose form. Well, there was certainly all that, yet strangely I still liked it. Through all the suffering, ugline...

from Jenloo82

I cannot believe this was written at the turn of the last century! A gritty, visceral down-and-out, just how I like them. Very British.

from REINADECOPIAYPEGA

This book is mch shorter than The Nether World, but follows a very similiar storyline and setting, as well as time period. The places where this book takes place truly existed in the East End of London over 100 years ago, but no longer exists as there was a massive slum clearance many many years...

from Staramber

The back bills it as Charles Dickens without the things that make you hate Dickens. Only they said it more elegantly. I'm unable to make the comparison with any conviction but I can tell you about this book. It is a stark and uncompromising description of the Victorian slums. The description of t...

from REINADECOPIAYPEGA

This book is mch shorter than The Nether World, but follows a very similiar storyline and setting, as well as time period. The places where this book takes place truly existed in the East End of London over 100 years ago, but no longer exists as there was a massive slum clearance many many years...