Lydia Joyce, Voices of the Night
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Lydia Joyce, Voices of the Night
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Voices Of The Night Lydia Joyce Signet
Voices of the Night
Lydia Joyce
Signet, Mar 2007, $6.99
ISBN: 0451220773
Maggie Knight grew up in the London slums where thugs and hookers were the norm. By 1860, though still young, she becomes a surrogate "Mother" to even younger orphans, protecting them from the lowlifes who would prey on these innocents.
In 1864, Lord Charles Crossham bet his sister Millie that he could make a purse out of a sow's hide. He selects Maggie as his metamorphosed target. She rejects his proposal until he offers to help her orphans as Maggie would do anything for her wards. As he teaches Maggie to behave as a lady, he falls in love with her. However, she knows a lofty aristocrat like her Charles needs better than a polished street ragamuffin, especially since a dangerous gang leader threatens her "children" and her beloved.
Placing Pygmalion in Dickens' London gives the audience a taste of VOICES OF THE NIGHT, a delightful Victorian romance. Whereas Maggie is a precocious nurturing Eliza, Charles is somewhat her Henry but actually is much more to her; and Danny the gang leader is Bill Sykes (of Oliver fame). The storyline has a freshness of its own as sub-genre readers will rejoice with this fine historical.
Harriet Klausner
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