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The story of Mary Ann Cotton, an alleged serial killer hanged for murder in 1873 is here seen through the eyes of Victoria Kilburn who comes from London for her health. She visits the Durham village where Mary Ann is supposed to have killed her last victim. Victoria - a lame disfigured girl - is drawn to the charismatic Mary Ann and does not believe the rising tide of scandal which leads to the woman's arrest. This novel - using the existing evidence - challenges the received wisdom that Mary Ann Cotton was indeed a killer. We see Mary Ann's tragic progress to the gallows through Victoria's eyes, even as the girl herself - through Mary Ann's intervention - finds her lameness dealt with by an artisan shoemaker, and her disfigurement cured by Mary Ann's herbal cures.
