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'Absorbing' Sunday Times
'Acutely observed and beautifully written' Daily Mail
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, SET AGAINST CHARLES DICKENS' HOME FOR FALLEN WOMEN
The house she was promised, is the first clean page in a new book for girls like her . . .
1847, Shepherds Bush. Charles Dickens' home for fallen women is about to open its doors. Part refuge, part reformatory, the house and its location are top secret. Among it first inmates are Martha, arrived from a shelter for prostitutes, and Josephine, a convicted thief. But faced with the chance to redeem themselves, how badly do they want it?
Across town, in her Piccadilly mansion, Dickens' friend, the millionaire Angela Burdett Coutts, receives news that turns her orderly world upside down. Her stalker has been freed from prison, and she knows it's only a matter of time before their nightmarish game resumes once more.
As the women's worlds collide in ways they could never have expected, they will discover that freedom always comes at a price . . .
'A writer of great originality' Kate Mosse
'Compelling' Good Housekeeping
'Meticulously researched and compelling' Red
'Exquisitely written . . . full of heart and hope' Fabulous
'This novel is the very definition of unputdownable' Louise Hare
'Undoubtedly Halls' best novel yet ' Elizabeth Macneal
*Sunday Times bestseller 19.04.25*
*Winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award 2022- https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/editors-choice-book-reviews/a41610537/stacey-halls-winner-futures-award/* Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, Independent, Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling, her second, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third Mrs England. Mrs England was longlisted for the Portico Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and won the Women's Prize Futures Award. Her latest novel, The Household, was also a Sunday Times bestseller. From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, highly anticipated new novel from Stacey Halls. Stacey Halls was the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award 2022. She has further won a Betty Trask award, was shortlisted for the British Book Award for Debut Novel of the Year and nominated for the Walter Scott Prize and Portico Prize. She has sold over 900,000 copies across her three books, each of which were Sunday Times bestsellers in both hardback and paperback. In THE HOUSEHOLD, once again, Stacey uses real historical figures and events and weaves her own irresistible story around them: in this case the home for fallen women set up by Charles Dickens and heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts. This major publication is Halls' first novel in three years and will be supported by a huge, unmissable marketing and PR campaign. Absorbing . . . Halls weaves together the elements of her story with great skill Stacey Halls is a writer of great originality, great imagination and great sense of place. Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel is worth reading, then reading again and again With warm and artful prose this is a story richly realised and sympathetically imagined, making THE HOUSEHOLD undoubtedly my favourite novel written by Stacey Halls so far, whose writing goes from strength to strength. I loved it Compelling . . . As ever, Halls's story-telling is acutely observed and beautifully written This novel is the very definition of unputdownable. I loved every one of the women connected to Urania Cottage. Original, engrossing and so true to life. My favourite Stacey Halls novel yet I devoured The Household by Stacey Halls. Meticulously researched and thoroug
'Acutely observed and beautifully written' Daily Mail
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, SET AGAINST CHARLES DICKENS' HOME FOR FALLEN WOMEN
The house she was promised, is the first clean page in a new book for girls like her . . .
1847, Shepherds Bush. Charles Dickens' home for fallen women is about to open its doors. Part refuge, part reformatory, the house and its location are top secret. Among it first inmates are Martha, arrived from a shelter for prostitutes, and Josephine, a convicted thief. But faced with the chance to redeem themselves, how badly do they want it?
Across town, in her Piccadilly mansion, Dickens' friend, the millionaire Angela Burdett Coutts, receives news that turns her orderly world upside down. Her stalker has been freed from prison, and she knows it's only a matter of time before their nightmarish game resumes once more.
As the women's worlds collide in ways they could never have expected, they will discover that freedom always comes at a price . . .
'A writer of great originality' Kate Mosse
'Compelling' Good Housekeeping
'Meticulously researched and compelling' Red
'Exquisitely written . . . full of heart and hope' Fabulous
'This novel is the very definition of unputdownable' Louise Hare
'Undoubtedly Halls' best novel yet ' Elizabeth Macneal
*Sunday Times bestseller 19.04.25*
*Winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award 2022- https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/editors-choice-book-reviews/a41610537/stacey-halls-winner-futures-award/* Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, Independent, Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. The Foundling, her second, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her third Mrs England. Mrs England was longlisted for the Portico Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and won the Women's Prize Futures Award. Her latest novel, The Household, was also a Sunday Times bestseller. From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, highly anticipated new novel from Stacey Halls. Stacey Halls was the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award 2022. She has further won a Betty Trask award, was shortlisted for the British Book Award for Debut Novel of the Year and nominated for the Walter Scott Prize and Portico Prize. She has sold over 900,000 copies across her three books, each of which were Sunday Times bestsellers in both hardback and paperback. In THE HOUSEHOLD, once again, Stacey uses real historical figures and events and weaves her own irresistible story around them: in this case the home for fallen women set up by Charles Dickens and heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts. This major publication is Halls' first novel in three years and will be supported by a huge, unmissable marketing and PR campaign. Absorbing . . . Halls weaves together the elements of her story with great skill Stacey Halls is a writer of great originality, great imagination and great sense of place. Atmospheric, intelligent, accessible, every novel is worth reading, then reading again and again With warm and artful prose this is a story richly realised and sympathetically imagined, making THE HOUSEHOLD undoubtedly my favourite novel written by Stacey Halls so far, whose writing goes from strength to strength. I loved it Compelling . . . As ever, Halls's story-telling is acutely observed and beautifully written This novel is the very definition of unputdownable. I loved every one of the women connected to Urania Cottage. Original, engrossing and so true to life. My favourite Stacey Halls novel yet I devoured The Household by Stacey Halls. Meticulously researched and thoroug