{"product_id":"9781905490813","title":"9781905490813","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you read these words, and all those that follow, I am afraid it must be because I am no longer here to speak them to you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Love is a disease; no doubt of it, and one which has proved mortal to many men down the ages . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOxford, 1887: Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her reign, a stone's throw from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female as ever lifted her petticoats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Stephen Chapman, a brilliant young medical student, is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford, his closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them, or stop Diana, the woman who seems destined to drive them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116002656496,"sku":"9781905490813","price":12.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781905490813_p0.jpg?v=1763615028","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781905490813","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}