Quite simply extraordinary... Imagine if Maggie Nelson Daphne du Maurier and Daniel Defoe
collaborated.' Sarah Perry author of The Essex Serpent Jack Sheppard - a transgender
carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist
and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind.
Together they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded
Thief-Catcher General ... ...Or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one
Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins and authenticity of the manuscript as Jack and Bess
trace the connections between the bowels of Newgate Prison and the dissection chambers of the
Royal College in a bawdy collision of a novel about gender love and liberation.
