# The Pleasures of Men

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- Book: [The Pleasures of Men](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-williams/the-pleasures-of-men) ([The Pleasures of Men.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-williams/the-pleasures-of-men.md))
- Authors: [Kate Williams](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-williams)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-650-2
- Published: 2012-01-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. When a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, Catherine is both horrified and fascinated. As the murders continue to panic the city, however, she gradually realizes she is snared in a deadly trap, where nothing is as it first appears -- for lurking behind the lies Catherine has been told are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure.