Fox Essie - The Fascination The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller This Year's Most Bewitching Beguiling Victorian Gothic Novel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: The estranged grandson of a wealthy collector of human curiosities becomes fascinated with teenaged twin sisters leading them into a web of dark obsessions. A dazzlingly dark gothic novel from the bestselling author of The Somnambulist. Makes skilful use of the tropes of Victorian gothic fiction a story of society's outsiders seeking acceptance and redemption Sunday Times An inventive slice of gothic fiction big - hearted and full of strangeness The Times A dazzling kaleidoscope of darkness and light Laura Purcell A magical macabre masterpiece A. J. West Brimming with Victorian wonders! Sean Lusk ________________________________ Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way except that Tilly hasn't grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father's quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as Captain . Theo is an orphan raised by his grandfather Lord Seabrook a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities particularly the human kind. Resenting his grandson for his mother's death in childbirth when Seabrook remarries and a new heir is produced Theo is forced to leave home without a penny to his name. Theo finds employment in Dr Summerwell's Museum of Anatomy in London and here he meets Captain and his theatrical family of performers freaks and outcasts. But it is Theo's fascination with Tilly and Keziah that will lead all of them into a web of deceits exposing the darkest secrets and threatening everything they know Exploring universal themes of love and loss the power of redemption and what it means to be unique The Fascination is an evocative glittering and bewitching gothic novel that brings alive Victorian London and darkness and deception that lies beneath ________________________________ Fascinating and immersive Anna Mazzola It had me spellbound Louisa Treger A wonderful captivating carnival of a novel Elizabeth Fremantle Essie Fox's best novel to date weaves terrors with triumphs heartache with hope Culturefly A scintillating cabinet of curiosities Foreword Reviews A cast of characters Dickens would be proud of Frances Quinn Rich dark and heady a glorious gothic carnival Kate Griffin Magnificent a triumph Dinah Jefferies A tender beautifully written meditation on what it meant in Victorian times to be an outsider Historical Novel Society Darkly gothic but surprisingly tender rendered with such magical and often terrifying authenticity. A marvel Damian Dibben Filled with gothic darkness and glorious hope Liz Fenwick Full of horrors and delights Bridget Walsh An opium trance of a novel a vivid fantasmagoria Noel O Reilly Deliciously dark full of twists and surprises Liz Hyder What a triumph! Emma Curtis Very fine historical fiction Emma Carroll Truly unexpected and original Kate Forsyth A dizzying potion of a novel Polly Crosby A sumptuous gothic treat Caroline Green Exceptional storytelling Nydia Hetherington I loved this group of wonderful others Marika Cobbold An exquisite novel Erika Mailman Haunting and emotive Gill Paul A twisty gothic treat wild and wonderful cast of characters Rebecca John Rich in peril tempered with strange theatrical beauty Kate Mascarenhas Buy it. Read it. Love it! Eleanor Anstruther
Title: The Fascination The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller This Year's Most Bewitching Beguiling Victorian Gothic Novel
Author(s): Fox Essie
Publisher: Orenda Books
Barcode: 9781914585524
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 11/28/2023
Category: Historical Fiction