This week House of Anansi is releasing The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis – a dark domestic drama set in 18th century Georgian London. Heroine Anne Jaccob does not want for material goods but lives in an unhappy home with an oppressive, uncaring father and an ailing mother burdened by countless miscarriages and the recent loss of her baby son. Anne is determined to find her own happiness and does so with Fub – the butcher’s boy – socially inferior and totally unsuitable. Her father has other plans and betroths her to the odious and sexually ambiguous Simeon Onions – a man much older and oh so much less appealing than the lusty Fub. Nothing will stand in Anne’s way when it comes to being with Fub – and she is not afraid to get a little blood on her hands in the process.
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