You're invited to the launch of The Butcher’s Daughter by Corinne Leigh Clark and David Demchuk

Hi, Brian.

I wanted to let you know that we’re having a launch party for The Butcher’s Daughter: The hitherto untold story of Mrs. Lovett on Saturday May 10th from 1:00 to 3:00 at Little Ghosts Books in Toronto, 930 Dundas St W (just west of Bathurst. Map here.) 

Feel free to spread the word – everyone’s invited!

I would love to see you if you’re available – you’re mentioned in the book’s acknowledgements. Barbara Berson [Corinne’s agent for this book] will be there too.

All the best,

Corinne 

If you can’t make Corinne’s launch, The Butcher's Daughter is available for pre-order from Chapters/Indigo here, and it’s available as a PDF from NetGalley here.

More launches:

If you’re in Winnipeg, Corinne’s co-author David Demchuk is having a launch this Thursday, May 8, at Raven’s End Books. Details here, and Corinne is having a second launch Thursday, May 22, in New York City at the Mysterious Bookshop. Details here.

The Butcher’s Daughter
by Corinne Leigh Clark and David Demchuk

Published by Hell’s Hundred, a Penguin Random House imprint.

The story of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has gripped fans across literary, stage, and screen renditions – but little has been told of Mrs. Lovett, Todd’s partner in crime. Until now.

Enclosed herewith: a bloodcurdling correspondence of horror and intrigue, based on the original Victorian penny dreadful that started it all.

“Your fingers may bleed with paper cuts as you tear through The Butcher's Daughter ... I am spellbound.”
 – Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

London, 1887: At the abandoned apartment of a missing young woman, a dossier of evidence is collected, ordered chronologically, and sent to the Chief Inspector of the London Metropolitan Police. It contains a frightening correspondence between an inquisitive journalist, Miss Emily Gibson, and the woman Gibson thinks may be the infamous Mrs. Lovett – Sweeney Todd’s accomplice, “a wicked woman” who baked men into pies and sold them in her pie shop on Fleet Street. The talk of London Town – even decades after her horrendous misdeeds.

As the woman relays the harrowing account of her life in the unruly and perilous streets of Victorian London, her missives unlock an intricate mystery that brings Miss Gibson closer to the truth, even as that truth may cost her everything. A hair-raising and breathtaking novel for fans of Sarah Waters and Gregory Maguire, The Butcher’s Daughter is an irresistible literary thriller that draws richly from historical sources and shines new light on the woman behind the counter of the most disreputable pie shop ever known.

Available from Chapters/Indigo here and as a PDF from NetGalley here.

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