The Square of Sevens

[A] wonderfully inventive novel set in 18th-century England. As the heroine and narrator Red seeks the truth about her origins and possible connection to the wealthy De Lacy family, the reader’s expectations are constantly confounded with one twist in her tale after anotherThe Times and Sunday TImes, Best Historical Fiction of 2023

This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre . . . a masterpieceJanice Hallett, betselling author of The Appeal

A sweeping Dickensian tour de force of a novel . . . cementing the author’s place as the queen of modern Georgian literatureSusan Stokes-Chapman, bestselling author of Pandora

A sprawling, exquisite, outright triumph . . . I doubt I’ll read a better book this yearChris Whitaker, author of We Begin At the End