Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London's newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Sold into servitude at 12, P struggles for years with her desire to live as "Jack". Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled "Confessions of the Fox".ĭated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. No one knows Jack's true story - his confessions have never been found. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary 18th-century thief. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr.
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