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Mathilda Reid

Since Mathilda's joyful but traumatic reunion with her , she has settled with him to a quiet life in Hampton-on-Sea - a life of seemingly middle-class conformity.

But can anyone ever really leave Whitechapel - in their hearts and in their imagination? It seems Mathilda cannot. Her extraordinary life has been shaped by the hidden truths of the East End, and she now finds the lure of that cross-section of London impossible to resist.

When the opportunity arises and Reid thinks she’s at school, Mathilda secretly makes the journey back to Whitechapel to walk its streets, brave its dangers and to hide in its darkness. Perhaps more than her father, Mathilda knows that Whitechapel forged her. She is it, and it is her.

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