Fallen Grace
by Mary Hooper

Release Date: 7th Jun 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 978 0 7475 9913 5
RRP: £8.99

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Supremely accessible YA novel set in Victorian times - Hooper's best to date...

A vast inheritance, a Royal funeral and a terrifying one-handed man; Fallen Grace is a Dickensian tale of good versus evil.

Grace is not your everyday pauper. Well spoken, impeccable manners, an appreciation of London Society and a quick, intelligent mind borne of good breeding. In Victorian London, however, it is only a small step from decency to the gutter. With her mother dead, her father missing abroad for many years and the demands of her childlike elder sister, Lily; it is all Grace can do to make ends meet. Grieving for a dead child that was forced on her by the unwanted attentions of a strange one-handed man...

Forced to find employment, Grace delivers herself and her sister into the hands of the Unwins, owners and purveyors of all things funereal. Unscrupulous, underhanded and undoubtedly the villains of the piece; the Unwins have discovered a valuable truth about the Parkes sisters and determined to rob them of what is rightfully theirs, they plot and scheme whilst feigning concern.

Sorrowful and spilling over with grievous acts of villainy and cruelty, Fallen Grace is an exquisite and poignant story of overcoming trials and tribulations. Hooper crafts a frustratingly long and convoluted plotline to follow that at once spurs you onto the next page if only to achieve release from the mounting tension as you see plainly what Grace cannot. This isn’t for the sensitive: right from the off, Hooper introduces adult themes and draws with uncompromising accuracy the harsh realities of life of the less-than-well-off in Victorian England.

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