The Dress Lodger By: Sheri Holman

Sunderland in 1832 is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, but life goes on relentlessly around it. Gustine, a sixteen-year-old prostitute who rents her beautiful blue dress from her pimp, is as busy as ever trying to earn a living to keep her baby fed. Her baby was born with its heart on the outside of its body, so when Gustine meets a doctor whose specialty is anatomy she resolves to help him find dead bodies to practise on, if he will in return help her…