Mistress of My Fate

  • Author Hallie Rubenhold
  • Narrator Jane McDowell
  • Publisher Transworld
  • Run Time 17 hours and 15 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Historical fiction.
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For fans of BBC TV's hit series HARLOTS

My tale is not for the faint of heart.

Born illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, Henrietta Lightfoot reveals the truth about the events that shaped her in this candid confessional of a wide-eyed girl's journey to worldliness.

Forced to flee her childhood home for the capital, Henrietta falls face first into a demi-monde of rakes, rogues, wits, pimps and courtesans. It is not long before she realizes that true liberty is a privilege to be enjoyed by men. But Henrietta is determined to find independence.

In this deliciously deviant novel, Rubenhold illuminates the dark lives of the women written out of eighteenth-century literature by the great male writers. Vibrant and full-blooded, it is an unputdownable picaresque story for our times

'A remarkable picture of a fascinating age' DAILY EXPRESS

'A full-blooded historical' INDEPENDENT

'Two parts Lizzie Bennett and Tom Jones's Sophia Western to one part Moll Flanders' INDEPENDENT

'Combines extraordinary bawdiness with silky sophistication' DAILY EXPRESS

© Hallie Rubenhold 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

  • A remarkable picture of a fascinating age which combined extraordinary bawdiness with silky sophistication (think Hogarth and Gainsborough)

    DAILY EXPRESS

  • A full-blooded historical – two parts Lizzie Bennett and Tom Jones’s Sophia Western to one part Moll Flanders – with a splash of Fanny Hill

    INDEPENDENT

  • This enticing novel, written with charm and originality, is full of period detail and historical insight

    THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE

  • A remarkable picture of a fascinating age which combined extraordinary bawdiness with silky sophistication (think Hogarth and Gainsborough)

    Daily Express

  • A full-blooded historical – two parts Lizzie Bennett and Tom Jones’s Sophia Western to one part Moll Flanders – with a splash of Fanny Hill

    Independent

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