{"product_id":"the-fascination-essie-fox","title":"The Fascination - Essie Fox","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVictorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn't grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father's quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds, at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as 'Captain'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheo is an orphan, raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook, a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities ... particularly the human kind. Resenting his grandson for his mother's death in childbirth, when Seabrook remarries and a new heir is produced, Theo is forced to leave home without a penny to his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheo finds employment in Dr Summerwell's Museum of Anatomy in London, and here he meets Captain and his theatrical 'family' of performers, freaks and outcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut it is Theo's fascination with Tilly and Keziah that will lead all of them into a web of deceits, exposing the darkest secrets and threatening everything they know...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExploring universal themes of love and loss, the power of redemption and what it means to be unique,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fascination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an evocative, glittering and bewitching gothic novel that brings alive Victorian London - and darkness and deception that lies beneath...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44938458726636,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/TF-EF-01.jpg?v=1713465695","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/the-fascination-essie-fox","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}