The Silent Cry - Anne Perry
Praise for
The Silent Cry
“Monk and Hester … keep us enthralled with their bold intellectual assaults on the hypocrisy of Victorian moral standards. With her grimly detailed descriptions of the match factories, sweatshops, paupers’ hospitals, and tenement ‘rookeries’ crowded into these slums, Perry brings a rank sense of reality to the wretched living conditions of the working poor.… Her early-Victorian series … has deepened and darkened its insights into the social evils that burdened London ...