FeatherweightAnnie Perry is born beside the coal muddied canals of the Black Country, at the height of the industrial revolution. The youngest in a large Romani family who cannot afford to keep her, when she is eight years old Annie is sold as a servant to the famous and feared bare knuckle boxer Bill Perry, The Tipton Slasher. Bill is starting to lose his strength, but refuses to give up his crown. When it looks like a fight might become Bill's last, Annie steps

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it's clear she'll struggle to keep herself to herself

the myth of the lone genius has obscured the critical story of the power of collaboration

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at least employed as housekeeper by the pompous Reverend Robert Corder

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it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years

For years Miranda viewed dog owners with some suspicion

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good statistics are not a trick

Adolescence and the scorn of his peers made him put away his binoculars