Frog music / Emma Donoghue.
Publication details: London : Picador, 2014.Description: 403 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781447249771 (paperback)
- 1447249771 (paperback)
- 9781447249740 (hardback)
- 823.92 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | DON | Available | 057193 |
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Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.