# Joe Rat

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- Book: [Joe Rat](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-barratt/joe-rat) ([Joe Rat.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-barratt/joe-rat.md))
- Authors: [Mark Barratt](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-barratt)
- Publisher: rhcp_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4812-197-7
- Published: 2012-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Set in the underbelly of Victorian London's East End, JOE RAT follows the fortunes of a tosher, Joe, who lives by scavenging in the sewers around the area of Whitechapel. It's a fast-paced and vivid tale of survival in a society which fosters neither friendship nor trust. But Joe comes to know both after a chance encounter with a runaway girl, Bess, and the 'madman' who inhabits Pound's Field. With gangs lurking round every corner and a life spent in the rat-infested tunnels below the streets, Joe needs more than a prime piece of tosh to change his fortunes . . .