Essie Fox
The Fascination: This year's most bewitching, beguiling Victorian gothic novel
The Fascination: This year's most bewitching, beguiling Victorian gothic novel
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The Fascination is a gothic novel by Essie Fox that follows the estranged grandson of a wealthy collector of human curiosities, who becomes fascinated with teenaged twin sisters and leads them into a web of dark obsessions. The book explores universal themes of love and loss, the power of redemption, and what it means to be unique.
Format: Hardback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Orenda Books
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 Book of the Month.
'Mysterious, sometimes shocking, full of surprises and twists … brimming with Victorian wonders! Sean Lusk.
'A magical, macabre masterpiece. A.J. West.
'Fascinating and immersive. Anna Mazzola.
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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, power, and the human condition, this is a gripping and atmospheric tale that will leave readers breathless.
Weight: 314g
Dimension: 138 x 207 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914585524
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