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Things in Jars is an enchanting Victorian detective novel that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times, from Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author Jess Kidd. London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. But Christabel is no ordinary child. She is not supposed to exist. As Bridie fights to recover the stolen child she enters a world of fanatical anatomists, crooked surgeons and mercenary showmen. Anomalies are in fashion, curiosities are the thing, and fortunes are won and lost in the name of entertainment. The public love a spectacle and Christabel may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen. “Things in Jars is exquisite. Perfect storytelling.” JOANNA CANNON
© 2019 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781528861922
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Audiobook: 4 April 2019
Things in Jars
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Things in Jars is an enchanting Victorian detective novel that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times, from Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author Jess Kidd. London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. But Christabel is no ordinary child. She is not supposed to exist. As Bridie fights to recover the stolen child she enters a world of fanatical anatomists, crooked surgeons and mercenary showmen. Anomalies are in fashion, curiosities are the thing, and fortunes are won and lost in the name of entertainment. The public love a spectacle and Christabel may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen. “Things in Jars is exquisite. Perfect storytelling.” JOANNA CANNON
© 2019 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781528861922
Release date
Audiobook: 4 April 2019
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Amy
14 Mar 2020
There are some books which you like but you can't explain why. Things in Jars by Jess Kid was one of those for me.This book is a Gothic mystery based in Victorian London. An extraordinary detective Bridie Devine tries to solve the kidnapping of a secret daughter (with supernatural powers) of Sir Edmund Berwick. Bridie is accompanied by a tattoo covered ghost and a seven foot tall housemaid. We have supernatural elements, dark collectors, wicked surgeons, London underworld and elements of macabre written in a brilliant style. This book is for lovers of Gothic Mystery, Victorian London, female detectives, folklore and fairytale elements.
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