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The Wardrobe Mistress

✍ Scribed by McGrath, Patrick

Book ID
109973335
Publisher
Random House
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
354 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781473544802

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✦ Synopsis

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ASYLUM, TRAUMA AND SPIDER

'[W]onderfully sinister ... a delight ... you are in for a thrilling ride.' Spectator

'A brilliant evocation of the theatrical world's seedy glamour, The Wardrobe Mistress is also a moving portrait of a woman struggling to make sense of her past and imagine a future for herself.' Sunday Times

'Ghosts of the theatre and the spectre of fascism haunt cold and grimy London in this atmospheric tale from a master of the grotesque.' Guardian

'[A] rich and highly spiced feast of a novel, even before it reaches its classically gothic McGrath climax.' Reader's Digest

'[An] unnerving thriller.' Stylist

JANUARY 1947.

London is in ruins, there's nothing to eat, and it's the coldest winter in living memory.

To make matters worse, Charlie Grice, one of the great stage...

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