From the award winning author of Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith, shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker Prize
‘Now you know why you are drawn to me – why your flesh comes creeping to mine and what it comes for. Let it creep.’
From the dark heart of a Victorian prison, disgraced spiritualist Selina Dawes weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud or a prodigy? By the time it all begins to matter, you’ll find yourself desperately wanting to believe in magic.
‘Spooky, spellbinding, exquisitely written… I do believe Waters is on the way to becoming a major literary star’ Val Hennessy
‘Indeed, this is such a brilliant writer that her readers would believe anything she told them’ A. N. Wilson, DAILY MAIL
‘Refined, repressed and simmering…a delicious tale of Victorian spiritualism’ Mel Steel, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY