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The House on Vesper Sands
Paraic O'Donnell
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'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE' Sarah Perry
'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian
'Has everything you could want in a novel' Stylist
In Victorian London, poor women are vanishing, and rumours abound of a shadowy gang known as the Spiriters.
In the unfamiliar streets of Soho, Gideon Bliss sets out in search of his lost love. From a ledge above Mayfair a seamstress jumps to her death, a mysterious message stitched into her own skin. Nearby, her aristocratic employer makes an abrupt exit from a gala ball, with society columnist Octavia Hillingdon in pursuit.
And on the sullen Kent shore, as the darkness gathers, secrets lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands.
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Praise for The House on Vesper Sands
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Rarely does a writer stop you so fully in your tracks - Sunday Independent on THE MAKER OF SWANSA gloriously unorthodox confection, part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle, with a generous handful of police procedural and a splash of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm. Both disquietingly eerie and impossible to read without laughing out loud ... A cracking good read. - GuardianLike George Eliot, Paraic O'Donnell takes the bombastic and the sincere and throws them together for comic contrast; like Dickens, he does it in deliciously dark Victorian style. The House on Vesper Sands is an eerie, raucous novel, packed with pathos and wit. Read it!The prose in O'Donnell's first novel is glorious, combining an ear for deep cadences of language with a phenomenal acuity of vision ... O'Donnell is clearly a major talent - GUARDIAN on THE MAKER OF SWANSTruly bewitching - David Mitchell on THE MAKER OF SWANSA page-turner in the very best sense of the term ... a deeply pleasurable gothic fantasy - Financial Times on THE MAKER OF SWANSLavishly entertaining, strange and captivating - INDEPENDENT on THE MAKER OF SWANSEnthralling ... a literary feast - Stylist on THE MAKER OF SWANS
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