Little Spark

Beschreibung

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK 2026<BR><BR>'A sumptuous Gothic mystery' NAT REEVE, author of NETTLEBLACK<BR>'Kidd has imagination to die for' Guardian<BR>'This tale of secrets and mysteries is steeped in atmospheric suspense. Gothic, yes, but galvanised by flashes of inventive wonder' Mail on Sunday<BR>Wildly imaginative . . . [a] terrific steampunk tale' Daily Mail<BR><BR>A secret cannot stay locked away forever<BR> <BR>Bodkin Bell, orphan, pickpocket and survivor, doesn't know where she came from, but she knows she's different.

Gaslights flare as she walks past. Cutlery spins. Shocks fly from her fingertips.<BR><BR>For years, she was 'Little Spark', the star of an electrifying travelling act - until it went too far and she ended up in a London gaol.<BR><BR>Now she's been offered a way out. A chance to serve at Point Mote, a vast, desolate house marooned on the misty Kent marshes. There, she will assist a reclusive family of cunning inventors in the creation of automata: miraculous, lifelike machines for which gentlemen collectors will pay handsomely.<BR><BR>But this house of wonders hides mysteries too.

As Bodkin starts to question why she is really there, she unearths secrets that have been buried bone-deep for years - and a truth beyond all imagining. One that was never meant to be found.

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