![]() It's a feast for all five senses and in spite of its weight, it's impossible to put down. ![]() Don't miss it Daily Telegraph * An astonishing narrative sweep that encompasses Victorian society in all its colourful variety, it peels away the surface gentility and brings its world to vivid life. ![]() Which is to say that the book is both mind-bogglingly clever and page-turningly tempting. Enjoy! - Alice Sebold * Owes as much to John Fowles as it does to Charlotte Bronte. wildly entertaining New York Times * When a book is this big, it had better be good - this one is. Faber's take on the 19th Century English novel is a heady and intoxicating mixture of affection, respect and scabrous resistance The Times * A sexy, bravura novel. From Pointillism to broad brushstroke bravura, the prose seems to be on some benign, timed-release speed: its pace in unflagging, its onward rush irresistible. * This is an unputdownable book there is no choice but to give in to this most unbelievably pleasurable of narrative rides. ![]()
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