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From the Betty Trask Award-winning author of "Tipping The Velvet" comes this "sexy, spooky, stylish" ("Guardian") tale set in and around the women's prison at Milbank in the 1870s. While doing "good work" at the prison, Margaret Prior becomes drawn to one of the inmates, spiritualist Selina Dawes. But she becomes increasingly involved in a world of seances, spirits and passion. "A work of intense and atmospheric imagination..." "Daily Telegraph".
Synopsis
* Sarah Waters' eerie and utterly compelling novel of mystery and seduction set in a women's prison in Victorian London - reissued with a stunning new jacket
