Against The Odds
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Last published Sun, May 26, 2013
London, 1872.
Two young women from vastly different backgrounds are thrown together after a chance meeting. As their stories coincide, they set off on a journey through the squalid, violent underbelly of the city and discover things about themselves that no one could ever have predicted.
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