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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
Julia Laite
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
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WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday
'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece' - Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five
'Extraordinary' - Guardian
'Historical writing does not get any better than this' Matt Houlbrook, author of The Prince of Tricksters
1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts - and disappears.
1910, London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives are tracking a ring of international criminals when they find a young woman on the streets of Soho who might be the key to cracking the whole case.
As more people are drawn into Lydia's life and the trial at the Old Bailey, the world is being reshaped into a new, global era. Choices are being made - about who gets to cross borders, whose stories matter and what justice looks like - that will shape the next century. In this immersive account, historian Julia Laite traces Lydia Harvey through the fragments she left behind to build an extraordinary story of aspiration, exploitation and survival - and one woman trying to build a life among the forces of history.
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With an inventive mix of sources, Laite brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing, but as the author says, it's a story being repeated daily for today'
<p>Extraordinary</p>
A careful, empathetic reconstruction of the early-20th-century vice trade, placing the victims at the heart of the narrative and returning their dignity to them. This is a moving and compelling work of great scholarship.
Historical writing does not get any better than this ... Working out from one trial at London'
Demonstrates how, with determination, sensitivity and a careful dose of imagination, extraordinary recoveries are possible ... Laite has taken her slim archival trace and immeasurably enriched it; she has reclaimed a woman'
Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It'
A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece of scholarly historical research and true crime writing. Julia Laite explores the sordid world of crime, sex and international policing in 1910 by focusing on the individuals caught up in an elaborate web of exploitation. Readers who loved <i>The Five</i> will find this story and its skilful telling equally as enthralling.
Historical writing does not get any better than this ... Imaginative and compelling, impassioned and powerful, and deeply, deeply moving
<p>History at its most rigorous and imaginative. Laite provides an insightful account of the regulation of sex trafficking in the early twentieth century and an enthralling encounter with some of the people involved in one of its more salacious episodes. ...A history book that often reads more like a novel, and that challenges the clichés of villains, victims, and heroic rescuers that dominate writing on sex trafficking. ... A masterwork</p>
One of the great storytellers of her generation, Julia Laite provides a lens through which we can view the practices and experiences of sex trafficking in the early twentieth century. Along the way, Laite nudges us to think about the ethics of telling another person'
A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece of scholarly historical research and true crime writing.
Kundenbewertungen
best history writing, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, award winning books 2022, true crime stories, human trafficking, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Revolting Prostitutes, Victory in the Kitchen, Guardian book of the week, Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold, the five