The Edge Of The Crowd

London, 1851. Among the teeming crowds visiting the Great Exhibition is the newspaper columnist Henry Hilditch, whose exposes of the lives and deprivations of the working class are the talk of bourgeois London. But Hilditch has another agenda. Mary Medworth, the love he lost the previous summer in Florence, has reappeared somewhere in the slums of London's East End. Hilditch follows the trail from the splendour of Hyde Park to the squalor of Whitechapel, encountering thieves, gaolers, kidnappers and false friends who may well lead him to his own destruction. 

'Deftly combining a mystery plot with the connected themes of photography, images memories, the way we frame them… it is a satisfying story, strong on atmosphere.'  Times Literary Supplement

'Well honed and robustly detailed.' Daily Mail

'Through its rich description of Dickensian London, this historical novel captures the Mid-Victorian metropolis beautifully.' The Times