![]() ![]() A series of murders is causing unrest in Shanghai, and the Japanese are under suspicion. Now, desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.īut when the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind’s mission pivots. ![]() It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.įour years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging-and allows her to heal from any wound. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders in 1930s Shanghai. ![]()
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Hay Institution for Girls was a prison that had been closed down for years but was re-opened in 1961 as a place of punishment for girls who would not comply with the strict regime of the Parramatta girls home. Wikipedia gives this horrifying description of it: I was struck when I heard about it by the seed of a story it was based on: the Hay Institution for Girls, established in 1961, not closed until 1974. Charlotte Wood’s fifth novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the Stella Prize and Indie Book of the Year and Indie Novel of the Year in 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The pastiche is pitch-perfect Lovegrove tells a thrilling tale and vividly renders the atmosphere of Victorian London." - The Guardian Publisher: Titan Books Ltd ISBN: 9781783295937 Number of pages: 448 Weight: 490 g Dimensions: 211 x 137 x 33 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave - or mad - enough to dare. 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