A Fallen Land — Janet Broomfield

Winner of the Historical Novel Prize. Mid-victorian Edinburgh: two different worlds in one city. Lizzie Crearie lives amidst the poverty of the Old Town, fighting a dailybattle against poverty and disease. In the prosperous New Town, Helen Lambert leads a life of apparent ease, yet there are changesbrewing in her life. Her friendship with doctor Patrick Cairns brings her into contact with the Crearie family and the horrifyingpoverty concealed by the outwardly picturesque tenements of the Old Town.