1838 and under the new Poor Law the destitute are now housed in union workhouses. Two men unknown to each other seek to uncover the suspected mistreatment of inmates in a small Suffolk workhouse. Edgar Lawes is a local landowner and justice of the peace; Ambrose Hudson a London journalist. Establishing himself on the board Lawes is immediately disturbed by the inhumanity he finds. Hudson becomes an inmate and covertly keeps a journal of conditions and events which… (more)
Publisher: Unbound Digital (August 01, 2017)
Collection: Hudson & Lawes Trilogy
Format: EPUB
Page count: 320 pages
Protection: DRM
Language: English