The Drowning Room by Michael Pye (Hardcover, 1995)

dewabit Template\n\njulianhouse\n\nThe Home of Opportunity\n\nOffering direct support to the socially excluded\n\nNot just changing lives - saving lives\n\nTitle: The Drowning Room\nAuthor: Michael Pye\nPublisher: Viking\nISBN 10: 0670865982 \u200E 0140141200 0140141227 \nISBN 13: 9780670865987 9780140141207 9780140141221\nDESCRIPTION\nIn the mid 17th century, when the Dutch first established a settlement on the island of Manhattan, Gretje Reyniers was the town whore. She also lent money and dealt in pelts. She is listed in the court records; whom she slandered and sued; who sued and slandered her back; debts welshed on; debts demanded; minor assaults; charges on lewdness. Michael Pye discovered Gretje Reyniers while researching the early history of New York. Nothing was known about her until she arrived in America, so he has conjured a life for her: a childhood in Amsterdam in the 1620s, where she grew up wot