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An Almond for a Parrot
First edition
AuthorSally Gardner (under pseudonym Wray Delaney)
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
PublisherHQ
Publication date
2016
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages416
ISBN0-00-818256-6

An Almond for a Parrot was published in 2016 by English author Sally Gardner (who writes children’s fiction) under the pseudonym Wray Delaney,[1] this is an adult novel set in London in 1756, and has been described as an erotic fairytale.[2] It takes its title from a tract by Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe.[2]

As remarked in The Guardian, "Historians estimate that one in five women worked as prostitutes in 18th‑century London. Delaney takes care to outline the abuse, assault, disease and abandonment that are also often the courtesan’s lot."[2]

  1. ^ An Almond for a Parrot by Wray Delaney Retrieved 10/9/21.
  2. ^ a b c A sexual odyssey across 18th-century London has shades of Sarah Waters and the Brothers Grimm Retrieved 10/9/21.

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