Abandoned at six months old,Moll has no option but to use her considerable wit and looks to make her way in a world where no mercy is given to the unadaptable.As a woman her options are limited and Moll embarks on a rollicking carrer of incest,bigamy and crime.Five times married, a whore and a thief, her business is survival- and survive she does, both a prisoner and manipulator of her circumstances,whose timely spiritual regeneration in prison is, she tells us,"the best part of the story".-