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Amid the gloomy, grimy world of South London in the 1890s - a world where sorrows are drowned in drink or occasionally lighted by a day out in the country - Liza grasps at the chance to escape from the poverty and drudgery of her life. She falls into the open arms of Jim, a married man with children. But Vere Street has its rules and conventions, and by overstepping them Liza must face the tragic consequences.
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