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<p><P><b>A debut novel set in Victorian England with a delightfully cheeky heroine who will have everyone talking. </b> <P>Susan Rose is not your average Victorian heroine. She's promiscuous, lovable, plump, and scheming. Luckily for Susan, her big heart is covered by an equally big bosom, and her bosom is her fortune- for Susan becomes a professional wet nurse, like her mother before her, and she makes it her business to know all the intrigues and scandals that the upper crust would prefer to keep to themselves. <P>When her own child is caught up in a family scandal, Susan must use all of her street smarts to rescue her baby from the powerful mistress of the house. The scheme she weaves is bold and daring, and could spell ruin if she fails-but Susan Rose has no intention of failing.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>In her first novel, Eisdorfer offers as a guide to Victorian England her entertaining and surprising protagonist, Susan Rose. A bawdy young woman who could easily have walked off the pages of <I>The Canterbury Tales</I>, Susan ends up wet-nursing after getting unexpectedly and illicitly pregnant, and her alcoholic and abusive father forces her to leave her child and t

Author

Eisdorfer, Erica

Publisher

Berkley ; Turnaround [distributor

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101106808

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (1,972 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14