The Sweetest Thing by Fiona Shaw

21st November 2007 with 1 Comment

Fiona Shaw’s novel opens with a couple of flither-lasses, Harriet and Mary, arriving in York during the second half of the nineteenth century, on the run from their harsh lives on the coast.
The story unfolds through two alternating voices; that of Harriet, a young, displaced working-class girl trying to make her way in the world; [...]

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