As both Jack and Voth are drawn into corruption and conspiracy, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined - and only a miracle will save them both. But he's not the only one who wants Jack's story - and some people will do whatever it takes to get it. Voth works feverishly day and night to authenticate the manuscript. At last, P becomes Jack Sheppard, one of the most notorious - and most wanted - thieves in history.īack in the present, Dr. Brixton Review Its hot as fuck, said the friend who handed me Confessions of the Fox, a faux-memoir set in eighteenth-century London. The result is a richly allusive and emotionally profound. Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London's newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. At once a glee-inducing caper, a touching love story and a deadly serious critique of colonialism and the prison-industrial complex. When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Sold into servitude at 12, P struggles for years with her desire to live as 'Jack'. Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox dares to conjure a world in which Jack Sheppardthe notorious thief and working class hero of eighteenth-century Englandis a modern transgender man, so convincingly that the reader is left to question the worth of accepted fact over what they perceive to be fiction this too has something in. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled 'Confessions of the Fox'.ĭated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. No one knows Jack's true story - his confessions have never been found. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary 18th-century thief. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr.

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