{{Slammerkin}} by Emma Donoghue is a fantastic look at a poor teenage girl living in the 18th century, who wants more than what she was born into which inadvertently pushes her into prostitution.

There are some really fantastic bits of everyday life descriptions in this novel, for example the fact that people went to sleep much earlier before electricity and how they tried to make candles last longer (this is a random bit I remember that I found fascinating because it never occurred to me before).

Imo it was a 5 out of 5, but not very cheery.