Stacey Halls
One of the most exciting new novelists to emerge in recent years, Stacey Halls worked as a journalist before writing her debut The Familiars. A historical novel, set against the backdrop of industrial 17th-century Lancashire the novel was an instant favourite with Waterstones booksellers and went on to become the bestselling UK debut of 2019. Her second novel was 2020’s The Foundling, a story set around Georgian London’s Foundling Hospital.
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From the author of The Familiars comes another slice of atmospheric historical fiction, as the residents of a house for fallen women collide with a millionairess in fear of her recently released stalker.
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