"Taking in Victorian London and the Arctic wilds, this exhilarating adventure sees an extraordinary woman embark on an extraordinary adventure to avenge her sister’s death. "
Lizzie Pook’s Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is an undeniable glory of historic fiction. At times deliciously grisly, always addictively entertaining, and laced with gothic atmosphere, it’s a rollercoaster romp of a read that reels with revenge, murder and the courage of two extraordinary women. I defy fans of female-fronted adventure novels not to read this in one sublimely escapist sitting.
London, 1850, and Maude receives the devastating news that her sister Constance has died after leaving their family apothecary for a ship bound for the Arctic, disguised as a boy to overcome the constraints of her sex. According to the letter Maude receives, Constance’s death was “a tragic accident”, but Maud smells a fish and will stop at nothing to get to the truth.
After reading her sister’s ship journal, Maude is drawn deep into London’s grim underbelly, where she encounters all manner of unsavoury men who make their money via ghoulish means. Marvellously macabre in places, and supremely evocative, Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge undulates between murderous intrigue, crisp characterisation and audacious brutality and courage to conjure an intoxicating apothecary’s brew of a book.
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In deepest winter, beware the coldest hearts . . .
London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared.
Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. ‘A tragic accident’, the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows something isn’t right.
When she finds Constance’s journal, it becomes clear that the truth is being buried by sinister forces. To find answers – and deliver justice for her sister – Maude must step into London’s dark underbelly, and into the path of dangerous, powerful men. The kind of men who seek their fortune in the city’s horrors, from the hangings at Newgate to the ghoulish waxworks of Madame Tussaud’s.
It is a perilous task. But Maude has dangerous skills of her own . . .
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Historical Fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical adventure fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Action Adventure, Fiction: narrative themes, Audiobooks of the Month, Recommendations
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge is available in Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge was written by Lizzie Pook and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge has 323 pages
£8.99
