Sweet Thames - Hardcover

Kneale, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856191818 ISBN 13: 9781856191814

Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

(Sweet Thames is set in the London of 1849. As an epidemic of cholera draws slowly nearer to the capital Joshua Jeavons, engineer, is working upon investigations for his great drain plan for London, to be presented to a competition of the newly created Metropolitan Committee for Sewers. Visiting all manner of Thames-shore sights inhabited by urchins and sewer scavengers, he works feverishly, caught by something like a vision: a London freed of rotting sewers, cleansed, reborn. Joshua's young wife, Isobella, upon whom he dotes, has been strange towards him since their recent marriage. Unpredictable of mood, she is frequently cold towards him and keeps him from her bed, claiming she needs time to grow accustomed to such things. Mere innocence of youth? There is also the matter of the anonymous letter Joshua has received)

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew Kneale was born in 1960 and read history at Oxford. He is the author of three other novels: Whore Banquets (winner of the Somerset Maugham award, 1987), Inside Rose's Kingdom (1989) and English Passengers (2000). He lives in Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1856191818
• ISBN 13: 9781856191814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224