(There’s also a marriage scandal, and a gold-hearted street urchin.) This terrifically exciting, chiaroscuro novel became an instant bestseller in England, with TV rights already sold, and will jolt, thrill, and bewitch U.S. Talented debut novelist Macneal drops readers right into a Victorian London that’s home to stinking squalor and chaos, but also significant beauty and possibility. Midway through, readers won’t know if they’re holding a romance, tragedy, or murder mystery, but won’t pause long enough to wonder about it as Iris rails against the limitations of her gender and social status, and Silas’ creepiness comes into sharp focus. The Doll Factory A Novel By LIST PRICE 12. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal - The 1 international bestseller and The New York Times Editors Choice As lush as the novels of Kate Morton and. In the build-up to and shadow of the 1851 Great Exhibition and Royal Academy show, love grows between Iris and Pre-Raphaelite painter Louis Iris tastes true freedom and determinedly pursues her own painting and Silas finalizes plans for capturing his most prized specimen. Meanwhile, taxidermist and curiosity-shop owner Silas nurses an obsession for Iris and her own deformity, a bent collarbone. Her coworker and twin sister, Rose, deformed in her teens by smallpox, feels especially betrayed. In London, 1850, porcelain-doll painter Iris’ family disowns her for leaving the oppressive but respectable doll shop to become an artist’s model.
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