Sleep, Pale Sister

<b><i>Readers of Kate Atkinson, Kate Mosse, Stacey Halls and Eve Chase will love this</i></b> <b><i>powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic depiction of Victorian artistic life from</i></b> <b><i ...

<b><i>Readers of Kate Atkinson, Kate Mosse, Stacey Halls and Eve Chase will love this</i></b> <b><i>powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic depiction of Victorian artistic life from</i></b> <b><i>international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris.</i></b> <b><i>Death, love, obsession, sex, murder and magic combine to make a compelling and haunting read...</i></b>
<b>'A hauntingly evocative laudanum-dream of a novel' --</b> <b><i>Time Out</i></b>
<b>'A very compulsive read' -- ***** Reader review</b>
<b>'Tremendous' -- ***** Reader review</b>
<b>'Real gothic page turner' -- ***** Reader review</b>
<b>'A truly dark, ghostly and powerful read' -- ***** Reader review</b>
<b>'The tension is gripping and kept going to the very end. I read it in one sitting!' -- ***** Reader review</b>
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<b>Henry Chester</b>, a domineering and puritanical <b>Victorian artist</b>, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old <b>Effie</b> he finds her.
Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But <b>something inside her is about to awaken.</b>
<b>Drawn into a dangerous underworld of prostitution, murder and blackmail, she must finally plan her revenge...</b>