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The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply into the psyche of the Victorians. What Jane Housham finds, in this exploration of guilt, sexual deviance and madness, is a diagnosis that is still ripe for the challenging. Set around Gateshead, a five-year-old Irish girl named Sarah Melvin sets out over the fell to look for her father and a troubled young man makes a frightening leap of logic to save his own skin.
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"The investigation into a Gateshead child murder reveals the Victorians - their classes, their justice and their scandals - as never before. This is an extraordinary story of sexual deviance and murder. In lively, empathic prose, Jane Housham explores psychiatry, the justice system and the media in mid-Victorian England to reveal a surprisingly modern state of affairs."
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