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A dazzlingly dark gothic novel from the bestselling author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sonambulist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMysterious, sometimes shocking, full of surprises and twists  brimming with Victorian wonders! \u003cstrong\u003eSean Lusk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEssie Fox follows in the footsteps of Angela Carter and AS Byatt with an adult fairy tale that delves into the darkest compulsions of human nature  an opium trance of a novel, a vivid fantasmagoria \u003cstrong\u003eNoel OReilly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn enthralling tale about deception, love and loss, and what it means to be different. Macabre and shocking, beautiful and tender, it had me spellbound \u003cstrong\u003eLouisa Treger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e________________________________\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVictorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn't grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father's quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds, at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as Captain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheo is an orphan, raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook, a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities  particularly the human kind. Resenting his grandson for his mothers death in childbirth, when Seabrook remarries and a new heir is produced, Theo is forced to leave home without a penny to his name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheo finds employment in Dr Summerwells Museum of Anatomy in London, and here he meets Captain and his theatrical family of performers, freaks and outcasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it is Theos fascination with Tilly and Keziah that will lead all of them into a web of deceits, exposing the darkest secrets and threatening everything they know\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring universal themes of love and loss, the power of redemption and what it means to be unique, \u003cem\u003eThe Fascination\u003c\/em\u003e is an evocative, glittering and bewitching gothic novel that brings alive Victorian London  and darkness and deception that lies beneath\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElixirs, fairgrounds, fairies in jars. 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