The House on Vesper Sands - Hardcover

O'Donnell, Paraic

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474600395 ISBN 13: 9781474600392

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018

Synopsis

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Tremendously good' Observer'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah Perry 'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian'Huge fun' Daily Mail'Has everything you could want in a novel' Stylist 'Dickens is whirling enviously in his grave ... Read by a fire on a cold winter evening' Irish Times'Ladies and gentlemen, the darkness is complete.' It is the winter of 1893, and in London the snow is falling. It is falling as Gideon Bliss seeks shelter in a Soho church, where he finds Angie Tatton lying before the altar. His one-time love is at death's door, murmuring about brightness and black air, and about those she calls the Spiriters. In the morning she is gone.The snow is falling as a seamstress climbs onto a ledge above Mayfair, a mysterious message stitched into her own skin. It is falling as she steadies herself and closes her eyes. It is falling, too, as her employer, Lord Strythe, vanishes into the night, watched by Octavia Hillingdon, a restless society columnist who longs to uncover a story of real importance.She and Gideon will soon be drawn into the same mystery, each desperate to save Angie and find out the truth about Lord Strythe. Their paths will cross as the darkness gathers, and will lead them at last to what lies hidden at the house on Vesper Sands.'Like the love child of Dickens and Conan Doyle' Liz Nugent 'This novel is an absolute banger' Jon McGregor 'An utter joy' Joanna Cannon '

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About the Author

Paraic O'Donnell is a writer of fiction, poetry and criticism. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, The Spectator, the Irish Times and elsewhere. His first novel, The Maker of Swans, was named the Amazon Rising Stars Debut of the Month for February 2016 and was shortlisted for the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards in the Newcomer of the Year category. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland with his wife and two children. http://paraicodonnell.com @paraicodonnell

Review

I devoured this book ... Line by line, Paraic's writing contains some of the most beautifully turned phrasing I've read in a long while * Laura Barnett, author of VERSIONS OF US, on THE MAKER OF SWANS * Compulsive reading . . . rich, strange, beautiful * Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK on THE MAKER OF SWANS * Enthralling ... a literary feast * Stylist on THE MAKER OF SWANS * Lavishly entertaining, strange and captivating * INDEPENDENT on THE MAKER OF SWANS * A page-turner in the very best sense of the term ... a deeply pleasurable gothic fantasy * Financial Times on THE MAKER OF SWANS * Truly bewitching * David Mitchell on THE MAKER OF SWANS * The prose in O'Donnell's first novel is glorious, combining an ear for deep cadences of language with a phenomenal acuity of vision ... O'Donnell is clearly a major talent * GUARDIAN on THE MAKER OF SWANS * Rarely does a writer stop you so fully in your tracks * Sunday Independent on THE MAKER OF SWANS *

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1474600395
• ISBN 13: 9781474600392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 372