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Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
3.0
This took me ages to read because I had COVID and the chapters are really long. Like 70 pages long which made it hard to pick up.
Slammerkin is inspired by the true story of Mary Saunders who is very driven by her desire to rise above her station no matter the cost. We follow her through the streets of London as a prostitute to a small town in whales as a maid. The whole book is very dark and gritty and really shows how grim life was for working class people in the 1700's. Mary didn't treat people very well but no one treated her well so it made sense why she was the way she was.
I liked that the snippets of other people's stories too like Abi - a slave finally realising that she can have freedom. And Mrs Jones - a woman struggling with her fertility and just trying to make a good life for her and her family. The ending was not what I expected but really shows how bad life was for people back then.
Slammerkin is inspired by the true story of Mary Saunders who is very driven by her desire to rise above her station no matter the cost. We follow her through the streets of London as a prostitute to a small town in whales as a maid. The whole book is very dark and gritty and really shows how grim life was for working class people in the 1700's. Mary didn't treat people very well but no one treated her well so it made sense why she was the way she was.
I liked that the snippets of other people's stories too like Abi - a slave finally realising that she can have freedom. And Mrs Jones - a woman struggling with her fertility and just trying to make a good life for her and her family. The ending was not what I expected but really shows how bad life was for people back then.