

The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny’s murderer to justice - if he doesn’t track her down first. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic.


From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: “Her greatest achievement yet…Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music - she shows genius.”- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.
