The Pleasures of Men
Autor Kate Williamsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2012
Spitalfields, 1840.
A murderer nicknamed The Man of Crows.
A heroine with a mysterious past and a vivid imagination.
Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. When a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a crow's beak, Catherine is fascinated, and devours news of his exploits.
As the murders cause panic throughout the city, she comes to believe she can channel the voices of his victims and that they will lead her to The Man himself. But she's already far closer than she realises - and lurking behind the lies she's been told about her past are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure.
Dark and compelling,The Pleasures of Menmarks Kate Williams as a stunning new voice in historical fiction.
'Wonderfully imaginative and gripping'The Times
'Intense, intelligent and hugely entertaining'Guardian
'Intoxicating and disturbing ... Shows a soaring talent let loose'Independent on Sunday
'Fans of Sarah Waters will love this'Good Housekeeping
'A spine-tingling and seductive thriller'Woman & Home
Kate Williams is an academic and historian who specialises in social history. Her first two historical biographies,England's Mistress, andBecoming Queen, were widely acclaimed and theIndependentcalled her 'one of our finest young historians.' She discusses history regularly on TV and radio, includingNewsnight, BBCBreakfast,The One Showand theTodayProgramme, covered the Royal Wedding for the BBC and presented a Timewatch programme on Queen Victoria. She is the social historian onRestoration Homewith Caroline Quentin. Kate has a DPhil from Oxford and two MAs from London, and teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241954546
ISBN-10: 0241954541
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241954541
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Kate
studied
at
Oxford
and
London
and
is
the
author
of
two
non-fiction
books:England's
Mistress:
the
Infamous
Life
of
Emma
HamiltonandBecomingQueen.She
lives
in
London.
The Pleasures of Menis her first novel.
The Pleasures of Menis her first novel.
Recenzii
Pitch-perfect
.
.
.
This
intoxicating
and
disturbing
novel
is
properly
thrilling
and
extraordinarily
well-written
A dark story of murder and obsession
An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London
Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book's elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd
A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London
A sinister picture of a country, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria
As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture
A spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense
Mesmerising, elegant and compelling
A dark story of murder and obsession
An eerie murder mystery set in the corrupt heart of Victorian London
Part-bodice-ripper, part-slasher, the book's elaborate plot moves along at a brisk clip with a nod to the likes of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd
A sure-footed evocation of seamy Victorian London
A sinister picture of a country, and protagonist, on the brink of hysteria
As crowded with sensation as a Victorian parlour with furniture
A spider's web of a plot and a spine-tingling atmosphere of menace and suspense
Mesmerising, elegant and compelling
Descriere
Kate Williams' first novel, "The Pleasures of Men", is a gothic thriller with a splash of brutal murder. Spitalfields, 1840. A murderer nicknamed The Man of Crows.
A heroine with a mysterious past and a vivid imagination. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. When a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a crow's beak, Catherine is fascinated, and devours news of his exploits.
As the murders cause panic throughout the city, she comes to believe she can channel the voices of his victims and that they will lead her to The Man himself. But she's already far closer than she realises - and lurking behind the lies she's been told about her past are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure. Dark and compelling, "The Pleasures of Men" marks Kate Williams as a stunning new voice in historical fiction.