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The Incorrigibles

Paperback
Published : Tuesday 21 May 2024
ISBN : 9780593473757
Price : €19.88


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1890, San Francisco. Seduced by her employers nephew, Annie Gilmurray, an Irish maid, is accused of stealing the ring he promised her. Sentenced to one year in San Quentin, Annie is heartbroken and frightened amongst the inmates of the womens ward: prostitutes, murderers and pickpockets. But Annie finds beauty and friendship in a brutal place, where the women look out for one another, dreaming of a better life after release. But their world inside San Quentins walls is a dangerous one, and when the unthinkable happens, Annie makes a choice that will alter the course of her future forever. 1972, San Francisco. Aspiring photographer Judy Morelli is grappling with the searing betrayal of her husbands infidelity, subletting a San Francisco apartment while she pieces her life back together. When Judy discovers Annies mug shot, she becomes fascinated, and invested not just in Annies fate, but also in the history of her gentrifying South of Market Street neighbourhood, joining the figh



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