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‘This is a surprising and thrilling Rake’s Progress. I enjoyed every word’

Diana Athill, author of Stet

‘I really admired and enjoyed it. The atmosphere, idiom and characters are great, and the plotting terrific – I had a genuine shock at the end’

Jenny Uglow

‘A splendid novel: immaculately researched, morally fascinating and strangely troubling. It kept surprising me and delighting me in equal measure’

Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy

‘I devoured this dark, compelling tale of an eighteenth-century Faustus and his Mephostophilis, which troubles the reader with a growing unease from the start and never slackens pace right up to its disturbing conclusion’

Maria McCann, author of The Wilding