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On The House, Paperback / softback Book

On The House Paperback / softback

Part of the The Hudson & Lawes Trilogy series

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1838 and under the new Poor Law the destitute are now housed in union workhouses. Two men unknown to each other seek to uncover the suspected mistreatment of inmates in a small Suffolk workhouse.

Edgar Lawes is a local landowner and justice of the peace; Ambrose Hudson a London journalist.

Establishing himself on the board Lawes is immediately disturbed by the inhumanity he finds.

Hudson becomes an inmate and covertly keeps a journal of conditions and events which follow chronologically those of Edgar Lawes.

The complacency of the owners is shattered by a suicide, closely followed by the brutal murder of a workhouse official.

In the wake of these two deaths unlikely friendships are forged and lives are changed, but will it be for the better?

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