Readers of Kate Atkinson, Kate Mosse, Stacey Halls and Eve Chase will love this powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic depiction of Victorian artistic life from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris. Death, love, obsession, sex, murder and magic combine to make a compelling and haunting read...
'A hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel' — Time Out
'A very compulsive read' — ***** Reader review
'Tremendous' — ***** Reader review
'Real gothic page turner' — ***** Reader review
'A truly dark, ghostly and powerful read' — ***** Reader review
'The tension is gripping and kept going to the very end. I read it in one sitting!' — ***** Reader review
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Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her.
Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken.
Drawn into a dangerous underworld of prostitution, murder and blackmail, she must finally plan her revenge...
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December 23, 2010 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781446454138
- File size: 341195 KB
- Duration: 11:50:49
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- English
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