ARGONAUT BOOKS

Cleverly plotted, beautifully written homage to the classic romance mystery novel...It is a remarkable first novel, a book about the joy of books, a riveting multi-layered mystery that twists and turns, and weaves a quite magical spellINDEPENDENTBeautifully written and highly intelligent. Blissful escapism for literate (and literary) females who love an old-fashioned storyTHE TIMESA real treat...Like all the best first novels, this one seems to bulge with a lifetime's hoarded inspirations. Setterfield litters the book with references to nineteenth-century gothic literature and other meta-tex...Read More