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.
| ISBN: | 9780751537604 |
| Publication date: | 15th May 2008 |
| Author: | Barbara Ewing |
| Publisher: | Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Mesmerist |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |