Confessions of the Fox

About this book

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.

Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all.

Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent.

Subjects

• collection:leslie_feinberg_award=finalist
• fiction
• fiction / historical
• fiction, historical, general
• fiction / literary
• general
• historical
• history
• lgbt
• lgbtq gender identity
• lgbtq historical fiction
• literary
• london (england), fiction
• new york times reviewed
• thieves
• transgender
• transgender people