The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn. The crowds jeer and curse as he passes, calling him a murderer. He tries to remain calm. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. Somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the...
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Spring, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is dragged through the streets of London to the gallows at Tyburn. The crowds jeer and curse as he passes, calling him a murderer. He tries to remain calm. His name is Tom Hawkins and he is innocent. Somehow he has to prove it, before the rope squeezes the life out of him.It is, of course, all his own fault. He was happy with Kitty S
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00P6URK84
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
One would think that his experiences in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison (chronicled in The Devil in the Marshalsea) would have set Thomas Hawkins firmly on the straight and narrow. It’s clear from the first pages of Antonia Hodgson’s The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins that this has not happened. W...
9 years ago
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