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Sleep, Pale Sister

(1994)
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A gothic tale set in 19th-century London, by the author of "The Evil Seed". A domineering and puritanical artist finds, in nine-year-old Effie, the perfect model he has been seeking, and she later becomes his wife. But Effie is drawn into a dangerous underworld of vice, blackmail and murder.

Genre: Historical Romance

Praise for this book

"A hauntingly evocative laudenum-dream of a novel." - Christopher Fowler


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