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Waller brings to life the stinking, teeming, intoxicating city that was London at the start of the eighteen century' - Mail on Sunday
'Whether talking about servants or sickness, banks or brothels, Mayreen Waller has a good eye for out-of the way detail...also a good ear for the telling quotation' - Roy Porter, Evening Standard
'Maureen Waller has the natural storyteller's gift for the telling detail. She almost lets you smell the streets and hear the shouts of Londoners going about their noisy lives three hundred years ago...The very best history books are those which give us the texture of the times, and Ms Waller knows how to do that better than almost anyone else writing today' - Jewish Chronicle
'Whether talking about servants or sickness, banks or brothels, Mayreen Waller has a good eye for out-of the way detail...also a good ear for the telling quotation' - Roy Porter, Evening Standard
'Maureen Waller has the natural storyteller's gift for the telling detail. She almost lets you smell the streets and hear the shouts of Londoners going about their noisy lives three hundred years ago...The very best history books are those which give us the texture of the times, and Ms Waller knows how to do that better than almost anyone else writing today' - Jewish Chronicle