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The Dress Lodger
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Our October, 2001 book, "The Dress Lodger" by Sheri
Holman.
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From the Publisher
In Sunderland, England, a city
quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year old beauty in an elegant blue dress makes her way between
shadow and lamp light. A potter's assistant by day and dress lodger by night, Gustine sells herself for necessity in a rented
gown, scrimping to feed and protect her only love: her fragile baby boy. She holds a glimmer of hope after meeting Dr. Henry
Chiver, a prisoner of his own dark past. But in a world where suspicion of medicine runs rampant like a fever, these two lost
souls will become irrevocably linked, as each crosses lines between rich and destitute, decorum and abandon, damnation and
salvation. By turns tender and horrifying, The Dress Lodger is a captivating historical thriller charged with a distinctly
modern voice...
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