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Mistress of My Fate : By the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE Paperback / softback

by Hallie Rubenhold

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'A remarkable picture of a fascinating age' DAILY EXPRESS'A full-blooded historical' INDEPENDENTFor fans of BBC TV's hit series HARLOTS_____________________ My tale is not for the faint of heart. Born illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, Henrietta Lightfoot reveals the truth about the events that shaped her in this candid confessional of a wide-eyed girl's journey to worldliness.

Forced to flee her childhood home for the capital, Henrietta falls face first into a demi-monde of rakes, rogues, wits, pimps and courtesans.

It is not long before she realizes that true liberty is a privilege to be enjoyed by men.

But Henrietta is determined to find independence. In this deliciously deviant novel, Rubenhold illuminates the dark lives of the women written out of eighteenth-century literature by the great male writers.

Vibrant and full-blooded, it is an unputdownable picaresque story for our times 'Two parts Lizzie Bennett and Tom Jones's Sophia Western to one part Moll Flanders' INDEPENDENT 'Combines extraordinary bawdiness with silky sophistication' DAILY EXPRESS .