Journalist Miss Emily Gibson believes that she has tracked down the infamous Mrs. Lovett to a convent. She is determined to uncover the truth even if it costs her her own life.
Meg Evans is bought up on 'Butchers' Row' in the City, helping her Father perform butchery that will both assist and damage her future.
Young Meg impresses a Doctor when she performs a crude amputation after seeing a young boy being run over by a passing cart.
When her Father passes away, the family is forced to sell the business, and Meg is sent away to service, where she encounters the Doctor once more.
At first she is in awe of the mysterious Doctor and his many secret rooms which she is forbidden to enter without prior permission. But she soon realises that the Doctor is not all he seems, and is a very dangerous man.
She runs, and unfortunately finds herself immediately inhabiting a very different life to the one she has become accosted to whilst awaiting the birth of her unwanted child. A victim of rape by a man that she previously trusted, Meg vows to avenge his crimes. Especially so when her baby is cruelly taken from her at birth.
On the run once again Meg stumbles across an abandoned Butchers' shop, with a Barber shop above it, and the rest as they say, is history.
But how did she come to be in a convent? Well, you will have to read the novel to find out, I promise that you won't be disappointed! This is a brilliantly dark thriller of a historical fiction novel, that I definitely recommend.
The Butcher's Daughter is available now via Amazon online and all good book shops.
Thank You to the publishers who approved my request via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.