The Lamplighter
Submitted by Karen on
Author's Home Country:
Australia
Category:
Crime Fiction
Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the subconscious mind, such tales are forbidden by the institute's governor, who warns Evelyn to cease her nocturnal storytelling.

ISBN:
0743243498
Publisher:
Scribner
Year of Publication:
2003





