- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Viking (24 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670915300
- ISBN-13: 978-0670915309
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 855,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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The Great Stink is a winner.,
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This review is from: The Great Stink (Hardcover)
The under-belly of London's Victorian life may not be for the fainthearted but its huge range of unforgettable characters makes great raw material for the novelist. Clare Clark has seized this opportunity with both hands and written a story which plunges the reader from the first page into a wonderfully colourful world. She describes the interwoven lives of a disturbed survivor of the Crimean War, working on the rebuilding of London's sewers, and a resourceful scavenger and rat-catcher who scrapes his living from beneath the streets. It is an exciting story, written in a style both rich and elegant and with a real feeling for the period. Strongly recommended.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Intelligent, gripping historical thriller,
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Clare Clark's The Great Stink is set during a pivotal point in the history of Victorian London, as plans are being finalised for a complete overhaul of the city's sewage system. It is this that forms the backdrop to the action. The plot works brilliantly on several levels - above ground, the machinery of this vast scheme of public works is vividly conveyed, with all its optimism and corruption. Below ground are the sewers themselves, dark foetid remnants of the city's medieval past, which are evoked in marvellously descriptive passages. Straddling the two is the hero of the book, William May, who works as an engineer under Joseph Bazalgette, and whose compulsive relationship with the dark, labyrinthine sewers will have disastrous consequences.This is an intelligent and gripping historical murder mystery with some fantastic twists and a truly page-turning denoument. The story is moving and involving, and manages brilliantly to transport the reader back in time to the Victorian age, and down beneath the foggy streets of London. Highly recommended.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Completely gripping - holds on and won't let you go!,
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Written in the style of a Victorian novel, and arranged in alternating chapters dealing with the two main characters as their two very different worlds collide with each other, this is a remarkable book. It grips you from the first page and won't let you go, grabbing you with wonderful descriptions of Victorian London that really make you feel the mud beneath your boots and smell the stench of the crumbling sewers that form the backdrop to much of the drama.This is a really intelligent historical novel with a strong plot, sympathetic and believable characters, and an atmosphere that will stay in your head long after you put the book down. I strongly recommend it.
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