Flypaper - Couverture souple

Altman, G.M.S.

 
9781888071313: Flypaper

Synopsis

Liverpool, England, 1880… In the squalid neighborhood of Merseyside, a number of seemingly healthy people in the prime of their lives are dying grotesque deaths. The one thing they have in common? Shortly before their deaths, they all took rooms in a boarding house owned by two widowed sisters. The young daughter of one of these sisters has come to believe that her mother and aunt may somehow be responsible for the deaths of these innocents. Dare she even think that it might be murder? Should she speak out, knowing that it could mean being turned out onto the dark and dangerous streets of Merseyside, where there is always the threat of starvation and rape? Dare she oppose her own mother, who might well think she, like the others, is worth more to her dead than alive? Or must she resign herself to watching so many she has come to care for—even love—be sent to their graves, one by one? Afraid to know the truth, fearing not knowing may be worse, the girl approaches her mother: “Why, Mum, are so many of our dear ones dyin’ in this house of ours,” she asks with terror in her heart. Her mother will say only one thing: “Flypaper.”

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