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|title=The Fair Fight
|sort=Fair Fight, The
|publisher=Orion Publishing
|date=August 2014
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871951</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>B00JOM7S7I</amazonus>
|website=http://www.applesandsnakes.co.uk/page/84/Performance+poets/417
|video=SjlYFPYfSVs
|summary=On the cusp of the 19th Century, Ruth is born in 'The Convent', a brothel run by her Madame of a mother. When a regular client takes an interest in Ruth, deciding to turn her into a female prize fighter, we are swept up into a grimy, dirty world. Journeying from the bloody sawdust at the side of a boxing ring to grand mansions and high society, this is a stunning debut by poet Anna Freeman.
|cover=0297871951
|aznuk=0297871951
|aznus=B00JOM7S7I
}}
Set in the grimy streets of Bristol, we follow the journey of Ruth – born to a Madame in a brothel, and constantly outshone by her prettier sister Dora, Ruth learns to stand on two feet and to defend herself – something which is picked up on by a regular client of Dora’s, Mr Dryer. Plunged headfirst into the world of fighting, Ruth soon meets Grenville Dryer’s wife, Charlotte, a woman scarred by smallpox and trapped in a loveless relationship with her husband, and a toxic one with her brother.

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