About: An Almond for a Parrot

An Almond for a Parrot was published in 2016 by English author Sally Gardner (who writes children’s fiction) under the pseudonym Wray Delaney, this is an adult novel set in London in 1756, and has been described as an erotic fairytale. It takes its title from a tract by Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe. As remarked in The Guardian, "Historians estimate that one in five women worked as prostitutes in 18th‑century London. Delaney takes care to outline the abuse, assault, disease and abandonment that are also often the courtesan’s lot."