![]() ![]() Sold into servitude at twelve, P struggles for years with her desire to live as “Jack.” When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.ĭated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. ![]() No one knows Jack’s true story-his confessions have never been found. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. ![]()
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