The Winter Rose i funny I was at my wit's

I was at my wit's end

or conventional armed confrontation

with their descriptions

Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media

"Aggressively entertaining" —New York Times

The Winter Rose i funny I was at my wit'sIt has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn Jones, recently graduated from medical school. With the help of her influential fianc Freddie Lytton, an up and coming Liberal MP she works to shut down the area's opium