The release date for the English version of 'Slammerkin' by
Emma Donoghue is May 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Despite coming from a humble background, Mary Saunders, a London teenager from a lower class, had a strong desire for lace and other accoutrements of a higher social class than her family could provide. Mary fears that her cunning will not go her very far in eighteenth-century England, and she gives up on her dreams of becoming a seamstress or a maid. Mary embarks on a torturous and ultimately fatal trip by herself, unable to submit to such a fate. Inspired on the little-known historical person Mary Saunders, Slammerkin is a fascinating historical story that is both challenging and graphic. The gap between a young girl's desire for independence and a better life and the constraints society places on her is explored by author Emma Donoghue. "Never give up your liberty."