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Book Synopsis''A book to lose yourself in'' - The TimesWhen India Selwyn Jones graduates from medical school and sets off for her first job in a Whitechapel clinic, she is full of ideas on how to educate London's poorest inhabitants to the dangers of malnutrition and poor hygiene, saving them from their own ignorance. When the rough and dashing Sid Malone head of The Firm' and London's biggest criminal becomes one of her patients, he begins to open her eyes to the realities of life in the East End, and how her simple ideas hold no water against the kind of grinding poverty that her clients face. India is torn in two, for she is engaged to the handsome, ambitious MP Freddy Lytton, and now the criminal Sid Malone has stolen her heart. But Freddy is very possessive when it comes to what he considers his, and will go to any length to keep India.Sid Malone, however, is not all that he seems, for he has a hidden past, and a family that desperately wants him back. His sister Fiona Bristow,
Trade ReviewA book to lose yourself in * The Times *
Donnelly’s passion and energy will keep readers turning the many pages, rooting for India and the gruff underworld boss she loves. * Publishers Weekly *
Table of ContentsPrologue Part One: May 1900 Part Two: London, September 1900 Part Three: London, 1906 Epilogue
Author’s note A Note on the Author
