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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey - WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice (Hardcover, Main)
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey - WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice (Hardcover, Main)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A gripping,
unputdownable masterpiece' Hallie Rubenhold, author of the Baillie
Gifford prize-winning The Five 'Ingenious history writing' Mail on
Sunday 'Extraordinary' Guardian 'A masterwork' Australian Book
Review 'Imaginative and compelling, impassioned and powerful, and
deeply, deeply moving' Matt Houlbrook, author of Prince of
Tricksters Lydia Harvey was meant to disappear. She was young and
working class; she'd walked the streets, worked in brothels, and
had no money of her own. In 1910, politicians, pimps, policemen and
moral reformers saw her as just one of many 'girls who
disappeared'. But when she took the stand to give testimony at the
trial of her traffickers, she ensured she'd never be forgotten.
Historian Julia Laite traces Lydia's extraordinary life from her
home in New Zealand to the streets of Buenos Aires and safe houses
of London. She also reveals the lives of international traffickers
Antonio Carvelli and his mysterious wife Marie, the policemen who
tracked them down, the journalists who stoked the scandal, and
Eilidh MacDougall, who made it her life's mission to help women
who'd been abused and disbelieved. Together, they tell an immersive
story of crime, travel and sexual exploitation, of lives long
overlooked and forgotten by history, and of a world transforming
into the 20th century.
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