I had spent three years at Oxford studying to join the clergy. Three years of rising at dawn to pray, daily seminars in classics, divinity and logic … before rushing back to church for evening prayers and finally to bed. Unfortunately, it was in that gap between evening prayers and bed where I was tested; and failed magnificently. If only God had put fewer hours in the day. And not invented twins.
It’s 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he’s going to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women and cards. But there’s a sense of honour there too, and Tom won’t pull family strings to get himself out of debt - not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London’s notorious debtors’ prison: The Marshalsea Gaol. Offered the opportunity to free himself by solving a murder, Tom finds his principles tested to the limit. He is forced to navigate a new world of hitherto unimaginable corruption and violence.
| ISBN: | 9781444775433 |
| Publication date: | 28th August 2014 |
| Author: | Antonia Hodgson |
| Publisher: | Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Thomas Hawkins |
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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I had spent three years at Oxford studying to join the clergy. Three years of rising at dawn to pray, daily seminars in classics, divinity and logic … before rushing back to church for evening prayers and finally to bed. Unfortunately, it was in that gap between evening prayers and bed where I was tested; and failed magnificently. If only God had put fewer hours in the day. And not invented twins.
It’s 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he’s going to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women and cards. But there’s a sense of honour there too, and Tom won’t pull family strings to get himself out of debt - not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London’s notorious debtors’ prison: The Marshalsea Gaol. Offered the opportunity to free himself by solving a murder, Tom finds his principles tested to the limit. He is forced to navigate a new world of hitherto unimaginable corruption and violence.
The Devil in the Marshalsea features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Devil in the Marshalsea is available in Hardback, Paperback
The Devil in the Marshalsea was written by Antonia Hodgson and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
The Devil in the Marshalsea has 400 pages
Yes it is part of Thomas Hawkins series
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