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Synopsis
The year is 1866. Edward Scales is a businessman, a butterfly collector, a respectable man. He is the man Gwen Carrick fell in love with seven years before. Now he is dead and Gwen is on trial for his murder. Set in a Victorian world battling between the forces of spiritualism and Darwinism, polite society and the call of clandestine love, Gwen and Edward's tale is a gripping melodrama, a romance, and a murder mystery that will compel readers to its final thrilling page.
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Martha Lea was born in Leicester in 1970 and has a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art & Design. The Specimen is her first novel.
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* This genre-defying novel mixes romance with high drama, science, feminism and old-fashioned murder mystery and intrigues, and surprises right up to the last page -- Kate Saunders The Times * Martha Lea uses language beautifully to evoke a sense of place as we move between Cornwall and Brazil, and there are many twists to keep the reader intrigued right to the very end -- Sheila Wright We Love This Book * Lea's intricate plot takes full advantage of the tropes of Victorian melodrama: Askew sexuality, off-kilter music-hall characters, clandestine relationships, repression, madness, a criminal trial and, yes, a bearded lady Marie Claire * An impressive first novel in a burgeoning Vic Lit subgenre of crime fiction Literary Review 20130301 * Assured and accomplished ... this is a rich, deep, rewarding read The Age
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- PublisherWindsor
- ISBN 10 1471325822
- ISBN 13 9781471325823
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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