A Loving Family (2013)
“As the stranger had warned her, it was not the most salubrious of areas. Slatternly women hung round in doorways, touting for business, and there seemed to be plenty of men eager to sample their wares. Workmen, bank clerks, traders and even respectable-looking businessmen staggered out of the pubs and disappeared into doorways, lured by the show of a shapely ankle or a beckoning finger. Stella could only guess that many of the so-called fallen women had come upon hard times and been forced into... prostitution as the only way they could earn their precarious living. The raucous laughter and voices raised in song emanating from the pubs contrasted savagely with cries of children and screams from inside the tenement buildings. This was life such as she had never seen, even in Limehouse. The wharves and dockyards of the city had their own dangers and evils, but this place was dark and sombre and seemingly without hope. She hammered on the iron knocker and waited, praying that no one would accost her.MoreLess
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