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|title= Trades of the Flesh
|author= Faye L Booth
|buy= Maybe
|borrow= Yes
|pages=304
|publisher= Macmillan New Writing
|date= September 2009
|isbn=978-0230743410
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I read ''Trades of the Flesh '' in about two hours, speeding through it, and I think I've spent about double that time figuring out how to review it! Apart from anything else, it's taken me well over an hour to settle on a genre (and I reserve the right to change that by the end of the review, although if I do I guess I could just delete this part…)
The front cover; a view of the back of a model dressed in a corset, suggests erotica. The blurb on the back talks about the perils of the lead character's job as a prostitute becoming clearer by the day, which made me think it was going to be crime fiction. And it's set in 1888, so you could presumably class it as historical fiction. But while there's sex and crime involved, and it's against a Victorian setting, it's the romance that ends up shining through – although this certainly isn't standard 'boy meets girl, they fall in love' romance.
For slightly more explicit sexy stuff, but in the twenty-first century, I'd go for [[The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour]]. Set in a slightly earlier period than ''Trades of the Flesh'' I can also recommend [[Kill-Grief by Caroline Rance]] or [[The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling]], but these don't have the same erotic overtones.
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