The Fascination (Fox Essie)(Paperback)

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
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