# The Whores' Asylum

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- Authors: [Katy Darby](https://www.bookquiver.com/katy-darby)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-02-02

## Description

When 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. Love is a disease; no doubt of it, and one which has proved mortal to many men down the ages . . . Oxford, 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. When 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.

## Editions

### The Whores' Asylum

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-19-0549-081-3
- Published: 2012-02-02
- Language: en_GB