Daniel Defoes fictional heroine Moll Flanders is famous for her criminal & sexual adventures racily portrayed n big & small screen romps as bawdy wench fallen woman & proto-feminist trailblazer. But who was she? & what world did she really inhabit? To answer these questions Sian Rees takes her readers on a journey of literary & historical detection across continents cultures & centuries. Following Molls tumultuous life the story moves from Jacobean England to Jamestown Virginia; from the English Civil War to the struggles of the Powhatan Indians; & from the metropolis of London to the hamlet of Annapolis in the early eighteenth century. Introducing us to a rogues gallery of real-life versions of Moll" it is as fast-moving & rich in incident as Defoes great novel."