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It starts with a small child \u2014 a girl of no more than eight or nine, with stringy blond hair and grease caked under her ragged fingernails \u2014 trotting down a street in a not so fashionable district of London. It\u2019s 1886. It\u2019s nearly three in the morning, the night shrouded in fog. She\u2019s barefoot and hungry, and back in the rooms she left just ten minutes ago, her parents have begun making up from the row they\u2019ve just ended. | Copyright 2015 by Christopher Barzak. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices