Kidd,Jess

THINGS IN JARS : Case of the Extraordinary Child - 1 - Great Britain Canongate 2019/01/01 - 408

The gripping Victorian detective novel from the Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author.

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.

9781786893772

Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra


England--London
Missing children
Women detectives
Kidnapping
Kidnapping--Investigation

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