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A bewitching historical gothic tale of obsessive love 'recommended to fans of Sarah Waters' [Heat] from the author of the highly acclaimed TV Book Club-selected THE SOMNAMBULIST.
Saved from the Thames one foggy London night, Pearl grows up at the House of Mermaids - a brothel that becomes the closest thing to home. But despite being cosseted and spoiled by the Madame, come her 14th year, Pearl is to be sold to the highest bidder.
Orphaned twins Lily and Elijah are on a rare trip to London when they meet the ethereal Pearl. And the repercussions of this chance encounter will bind all their fates together, in a dark and dangerous way.
Bewitching, gothic and sensual, this is a tale of love and betrayal in a world where nothing is quite as it seems.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781409121206
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 282 g
Dimensions: 131 x 200 x 28 mm
Fox's vivid, sensual prose is - fittingly - as seductive as a siren's song, drawing you into a shadowy Victorian world of obsession and guilt... An intoxicating follow-up to 2011's acclaimed THE SOMNAMBULIST. Recommended to fans of Sarah Waters - HEAT
Fox's story of obsessive love is memorable and unusual - SUNDAY TIMES
The author behind the Virtual Victorian blog has followed up her Channel 4 Book Club choice THE SOMNAMBULIST with this Wilkie Collins-style sensation novel... An obvious comparison is with early Sarah Waters...The glee with which Fox approaches her material is infectious. All Victorian life is here ...Intriguing. - GUARDIAN
A fabulous foray into a shadowy Victorian world - WOMAN AND HOME
This is a modern Gothic novel with a beguiling story at its heart. Big themes of love, obsession, betrayal, tragedy and madness fill the pages, as a shadowy underworld collides with the art and literature elite. Fox weaves her story with dramatic style and allure, creating a cast of enticing characters and an intriguing plot that I couldn't get enough of - The White Company 'What We're Reading'
Transports us to the Victorian squalor of London's East End for a tale of illegitimacy, incest and theatricality with so many twists that you'll want to read it in one sitting - COSMOPOLITAN on the SOMNAMBULIST
Vividly compelling, dark and dazzling - Katherine Webb on THE SOMNAMBULIST
[THE SOMNAMBULIST] has taken me to new worlds, is riven with suspense, has made my imagination wander, and my fingers itch to turn the last page - JoJo Moyes
Expose[s] the mouldy underbelly of Victoriana... the effect can be deliciously unsettling. - THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Weaving an intoxicating tale that is both sinister and seductive as it depicts passion, betrayal and obsessive love in every guise, the novel certainly captures the less-palatable aspects of Victorian society with sensuous conviction - GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Partly inspired by Kingsley's 'The Water Babies' and pre-raphaelite art this victorian melodrama relates the tale of Pearl, found abandoned as a baby on the banks of the Thames, the men who would own... More
Lots happen in Eliah's mermaid. A web toe baby is found in thames. She is rescued and brought up by Mrs Hilbert who names her as Pearl. Orphan twins are rescued by author widower Augustus Lamb from a hosptial .... More
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