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The Sealed Letter

The Sealed Letter

Author(s): Emma Donoghue

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1864

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This wonderful book is set in Victorian London loosely based on a scandalous divorce case, and there are features and facts that are even stranger than fiction: friends turn against each other, a stained dress, false evidence…..Helen Codrington has been brought up abroad, is now a wife and mother but embarks on an affair with Captain Anderson.

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‘Set in Victorian England and based on a real-life divorce case that scandalised the country in 1864, it tells the tale of two female friends whose lives are never the same again once one...

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