In the dark, dank sewers of Victorian London, a boy known as Joe Rat scrounges for valuables which he gives to "Mother," a criminal mastermind who considers him a favorite, but a chance meeting with a runaway girl and "the Madman" transforms all their lives.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: street life, fiction, runaway children, crime, mental illness, london (england), history, fiction, great britain, 19th century