Things in Jars

Author(s): Jess Kidd

Fiction

Staff notes: A woman detective and her ghostly companion in 19th century London set about trying to solve the case of a missing child who is... different... in fact, perhaps even deadly. - Belinda


The case of the extraordinary child . . .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.

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General Fields

  • : 9781786893772
  • : Canongate Books
  • : Canongate Books
  • : January 2020
  • : .984 Inches X 5.079 Inches X 7.795 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 416
  • : 2002
  • : Paperback
  • : Jess Kidd