# Sweet Thames

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- Book: [Sweet Thames](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-kneale/sweet-thames) ([Sweet Thames.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-kneale/sweet-thames.md))
- Authors: [Matthew Kneale](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-kneale)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-17-8649-640-9
- Published: 2018-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the summer of 1849, cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of sewage cascading into the Thames – for many Londoners the only source of drinking water. Joshua Jeavons, a young and idealistic engineer, embarks on an obsessive quest to find the cause of the epidemic. As he labours in a fog of incomprehension, his domestic life is troubled by the baffling coldness of his beautiful bride, Isobella. But when she suddenly disappears, his desperate search for her takes him to a netherworld of slum-dwellers, pickpockets and scavengers of subterranean London.