Belle Condition:Well Read uncovers a leather satchel containing

uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing

And Lettie—magical

New Year's Day

the clothes they are wearing

Publication Date: 16 Dec 2012

Belle Condition:Well Read uncovers a leather satchel containingLondon 1910Fifteen year old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris. No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to