Perfect fiction for fans of BBC TV’s hit series BRIDGERTON and HARLOTS
‘A remarkable picture of a fascinating age’ Daily Express
‘A full-blooded historical’ Independent
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My tale is not for the faint of heart.
Born illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, the scandalous Henrietta Lightfoot gives us her version of the truth about her criminal life in this delicious coming-of-age.
Fleeing her childhood home for the big city, Henrietta is now swimming in the London underworld of rakes, rogues, sharks, pimps and courtesans – she quickly sees that true liberty is a man’s privilege.
What must Henrietta do to survive in a world designed for men?
Gripping, twisty, shocking, MISTRESS OF MY FATE illuminates the dark lives of the women written out by the masters of eighteenth-century literature. Vibrant and full-blooded, it is an irresistible picaresque story for our times
‘Two parts Lizzie Bennett and Tom Jones’s Sophia Western to one part Moll Flanders’ INDEPENDENT
‘Combines extraordinary bawdiness with silky sophistication’ DAILY EXPRESS
