
A Calf for Venus
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Gareth Armstrong
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By:
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Norah Lofts
About this listen
The young doctor had never been inside the Coffee House - and indeed had no wish to - until he met the frail, shabbily dressed girl on the Newmarket coach. And when he learned she was joining the girls who worked in the serving rooms, he decided it was time to visit the strange, secretive house on the other side of the square.
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Not a positive experience.
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