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Things in Jars

Jess Kidd

From Shelf: All Time Favourites.

The gripping Victorian detective novel from the Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN DAILY EXPRESS, I AND IRISH INDEPENDENT'Thrilling, mysterious, twisted' Graham Norton'Utterly mesmerising . . . A triumph' New York Times Book Review'Delivers chills galore' GuardianThe case of the extraordinary child . . .London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.Things in Jars is a Victorian novel unlike any other, one that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
416
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9781786893772
Published Date:
2/1/2020
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight:
277g
Category:
Historical mysteries

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781786893772


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