Review
'A cracking good story told with verve and assurance.' PUBLISHING NEWS 'Packed with period atmosphere, this is a stirring tale.' WOMEN AND HOME 'Expertly executed.' MIRROR 'A delightful plum pudding of a historical novel' Sunday Times
Product Description
Actresses Cordelia Preston and Rillie Spoons, back in nineteenth-century Bloomsbury after another tatty theatrical tour, consider Mesmerism as an alternative career. Mesmerism is all the rage: could they act out Mesmerism just as well as Shakespeare? Cordelia emerges as a Phreno-Mesmerist, advising on marriage - and sex. Cordelia and Rillie become the most popular (and richest) agony aunts in London. But Cordelia does have the 'gift', and what begins as an audacious subterfuge erupts into a scandal of love and murder. As a trial plays out under the glare of an unreliable popular press, the dark mysteries of Cordelia's past explode
