'Ingenious' - The Sunday Times
'I genuinely could not put this down' - Stacey Halls
'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' - Gillian McAllister
A Victorian gothic thriller from Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory.
She wants him. He'll take Everything.
London, 1839. Bonnie is running from a terrible crime. She and her lover Crawford have gone too far this time, and now she needs to disappear.
When Crawford secures her a position as lady's maid in a grand house on the Thames, Bonnie thinks she has found safety. But Endellion is a strange place, haunted by the recent death of its mistress. As Bonnie comes to understand the family who live here, she begins to question what secrets might be lying behind the house's paper-thin walls. Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .
'Gothic and gripping, full of twists and turns. I was hooked from the first page' - Flora Carr
'A book to sink into and relish. Dark, clever, with a twist worthy of your attention' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' - Susan Stokes-Chapman
Autorentext
Elizabeth Macneal was born in Scotland and now lives in Twickenham. She is a writer and potter and works from a small studio at the bottom of her garden. The Doll Factory, Elizabeth's debut novel, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has been translated into twenty-nine languages and is now a major television series. Her second novel, Circus of Wonders, was also a Sunday Times bestseller.