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The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola

7 July 2016 By Katherine Clements

Every now and then a debut novel comes along that stands out from the crowd. The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola is one. Sarah Gale is a seamstress, prostitute and single mother, incarcerated in Newgate Prison, sentenced to hang for her role in the murder of Hannah Brown. Young, ambitious lawyer, Edmund Fleetwood, is appointed to […]

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