<p><b>Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019</b><br><b>Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, 2019 </b><br><br><b>A <i>New Yorker</i> Book of the Year, 2018 </b><br><b>A <i>Huffington Post</i> Book of the Year, 2018 </b><br><b>A<i> Buzzfeed</i> Book of the Year, 2018 </b><br><br><b>''Quite simply extraordinary... Imagine if Maggie Nelson, Daphne du Maurier and Daniel Defoe collaborated.'' Sarah Perry, author of <i>The Essex Serpent</i></b><br><br>Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter''s apprentice - has fled his master''s house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General ... <br><br>...Or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins and authenticity of the manuscript as Jack and Bess trace the connections betwe