Sleep, Pale Sister

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

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