The Great Stink

Just finished The Great Stink (2005) - amazing. Descriptions of life in the Crimea & London were amazing, so accurate that I was almost too grossed out to keep reading in some places (with a book that takes place at least half in the sewers, there's a lot of s*** and rats). Really nicely thought out characters, though, and I just can't say enough about how alive - festeringly, stinkingly alive the book is.