{"product_id":"9781914585524","title":"The Fascination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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               \u003ci\u003eThe Somnambulist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Mysterious, sometimes shocking, full of surprises and twists …              brimming with Victorian wonders!’                            \u003cb\u003eSean Lusk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magical, macabre masterpiece’              \u003cb\u003eA.J. West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Fascinating and immersive’              \u003cb\u003eAnna Mazzola\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e___________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions…             \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwin 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’             .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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…             \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring universal themes of love and loss, the power of redemption and what it means to be unique,               \u003ci\u003eThe Fascination\u003c\/i\u003e               is an evocative, glittering and bewitching gothic novel that brings alive Victorian London –              and darkness and deception that lies beneath…             \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e_________________\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             An opium trance of a novel, a vivid fantasmagoria’                            \u003cb\u003eNoel O’             Reilly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Deliciously dark, full of twists and surprises’              \u003cb\u003eLiz Hyder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Filled with gothic darkness and glorious hope’              \u003cb\u003eLiz Fenwick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Rich, dark and heady …              a glorious gothic carnival’              \u003cb\u003eKate Griffin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Truly unexpected and original’              \u003cb\u003eKate Forsyth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Beautifully researched, full of horrors and delights’                            \u003cb\u003eBridget Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             A cast of characters Dickens would be proud of’              \u003cb\u003eFrances Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             A dizzying potion of a novel’              \u003cb\u003ePolly Crosby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             A twisty, gothic’              \u003cb\u003eRebecca John\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Rich in peril, tempered with strange, theatrical beauty’              \u003cb\u003eKate Mascarenhas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Haunting and emotive’              \u003cb\u003eGill Paul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             A gorgeously gothic slice of Victoriana’              \u003cb\u003eKatherine Clements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Exceptional storytelling, exquisitely told’                            \u003cb\u003eNydia Hetherington\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Very fine historical fiction’                            \u003cb\u003eEmma Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             So inventive and surprising’                            \u003cb\u003eJuliet West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             A               sumptuous, gothic treat’                            \u003cb\u003eCaroline Green\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             A               wonderful, captivating carnival of               a               novel’                            \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Fremantle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Wonderfully vivid and touching’              \u003cb\u003eAdele Geras\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             I loved this story of a group of wonderful “             others’                            \u003cb\u003eMarika Cobbold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘             Atmospheric, gripping and ultimately uplifting’                            \u003cb\u003eKaren 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