This is not your Alex Kingston's Moll Flanders. Although the general outline is the same, the feeling of the book (audio book) is different than the Masterpiece Theater presentation.

In Defoe's own preface, Moll Flanders was, in his words: "12 years a whore, five times a wife, once to her own brother, 12 years a thief, and eight years a transported felon in Virginia." That does not make Moll, for the most part, an unlikable character; certainly a very interesting character. In fact, found Moll an extraordinary woman.

This is yet again a story that casts a light on the state of women in the 16th century and the nature of punishment prescribed for what we would consider relatively minor crimes today.