The Mesmerist: Number 1 in series. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, 2008
- Softcover
- Used
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Item description from seller
A captivating, rich historical novel set in nineteenth-century Bloomsbury.
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- Title
- The Mesmerist: Number 1 in series
- Author
- Barbara Ewing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0751537608
- ISBN 13
- 9780751537604
London, 1838: the controversial practice of Mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners and its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. In her candle-lit Bloomsbury basement she learns to harness her talent - and to finally look towards the future.
But success is fragile when you have a past filled with secrets. On a wintry, moonlit night a body is found in Bloomsbury Square, and what began as an audacious subterfuge erupts into a scandal. Cordelia's past is revealed, bringing not only heartache but terror - and the mystery of a cloaked figure who waits for her in the shadowy London streets.
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