Lewin's Mead [Hardcover] Thompson, E. V.

Bristol, 1831. The Reform Bill riots are tearing the city apart, and in the slums of Lewin's Mead, a young constable named Ivor Primrose is trying to keep the peace while navigating his own impossible love for Fanny Tennant, a woman far above his station. E.V. Thompson drops us into the smoke and chaos of Victorian England's most volatile moment — when the working poor rose up and the ruling class pushed back hard. The streets are dangerous, the politics are brutal, and Primrose is caught between duty and desire. Thompson, a former policeman himself, writes with gritty authenticity about class divide and social upheaval. If you loved Sarah Waters or want historical fiction that doesn't sanitize the past, this Bristol-set epic delivers.