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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Jess Kidd

ISBN: 9781786893772

Year: 2020

Format: Paperback

Historical fiction, Fantasy

Things in Jars by
Jess Kidd

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$ 310.00 mxn

Things in Jars by

Jess Kidd

Reviews

"Utterly mesmerising … A triumph. Kidd’s imagination – her ability to imagine a world more magical, darker, richer than our own – is a thing of wonder. She rummages through the layers of Victorian society as if through an old steamer trunk, pulling up all variety of treasures, like pythons and heads in hatboxes"

New York Times Book Review

Summary

London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.


Things in Jars is a Victorian novel unlike any other, one that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.

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