The Last Straw

A Victorian coming-of-age story.

Jane, was nineteen and yearning to leave Christopher Yard, the wretched slum where she lived and worked as a straw plaiter. 'The Christ', a hotbox of crime, poverty and disease held a tight grip on its pitiful occupants only releasing them to prison, workhouse or death. Jane was determined to be an exception and became entangled with two men who changed her life in ways that she could never have envisaged.

Inspired by an extraordinary true story and a heinous crime.